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More Courtesan Quotes

This quote is filed under Courtesan Quotes, one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the… — Pietro Aretino
• The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are… — Pietro Aretino
• I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard… — Hwang Jini
• It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault
• It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to… — Julian Barnes
• If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to… — Jacqueline Carey
• Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has… — HonorÈ De Balzac
• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of… — Anne Stuart
• How is it that one woman is…enough…for three men?” “I don’t know.” “She must be a very talented courtesan.” “Callie.”… — Sarah MacLean
• Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole
• Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the… — Alexandre Dumas-fils

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