Animated Quote by Leigh Hunt

Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage…

— Arthur Desmond

“For though a very few hours spent in the hard labour of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects than can really be in common…

— Jane Austen

Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to…

— Emil Kraepelin

Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender,…

— Kate Millett

“for though a very few hours spent in the hard labor of incessant talking will dispatch more subjects that can really be in common…

— Jane Austen

“  "Friendship is no plant of hasty growth,    Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil,    The gradual culture of kind intercourse    Must bring it to perfection.”

— Isabella Mary Beeton

Sex is a conversation carried out by another means.

— Peter Ustinov

Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

— Norman Cousins

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

— John Major

“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.”

— John Maxwell Taylor