Quotes · Skopia

40 quotes

Confessions · 398

★ 7.9

Scripture · Religious literature

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth.

Song of Solomon 3:1

965 BC

★ 5.3

Autobiography and memoir

Whatever St. Augustine may say, human creatures would not perform the work of generation if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie · 1791

★ 5.2

Personal journal

Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anais Nin

1937

★ 5.2

Song · Great American songbook

Birds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

Let's Do It · 1928

★ 5.1

Film · Film noir · Crime (film) · Crime

A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

Vivian Rutledge

The Big Sleep · 1946

★ 4.8

Film · Action (film) · Drama (film) · Action · Drama

Take me to bed, or lose me forever.

Carole

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

Essay

When the candles are out all women are fair.

Plutarch

Moralia · 100

★ 3.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Coming of age · Comedy drama

I was on top! Who the fuck is on top their first time!

Lady Bird

Lady Bird · 2017

★ 3.9

Scripture · Religious literature

How much better is thy love than wine!

Song of Solomon 4:10

1000 BC

★ 3.7

Essay · Magazine

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Baldwin

1961

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

The most exciting thing is not-doing-it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 3.7

Film · Crime comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Crime comedy · Comedy

By the way...I faked every orgasm!

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun · 1988

★ 3.7

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Comedy · Drama

I spent most of my adult life using sex to deflect from the screaming void inside my empty heart.

Fleabag

Fleabag · 2019

★ 3.7

Novel

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Aldous Huxley

1936

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

Anais Nin

1941

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

Men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.

Harry Burns

When Harry Met Sally... · 1989

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

So, the psychiatrist has a patient, draws a circle, what do you think of when you see this? He says, sex. That's not the joke, wait a second. He draws a picture of a tree, what do you think of when you see it? Sex. He draws a picture of a car, house, sex, sex, sex. The doctor says, you know, you're obsessed with sex. The patient says, well you're the one drawing all the dirty pictures!

Bob Wiley

What About Bob? · 1991

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

William Osler

1904

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another.

Jessamyn West

1973

★ 3.5

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

1966

★ 3.5

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive.

Henry Fairlie

1978

★ 3.4

Film · Sports (film) · Romantic comedy (film) · Sports · Romantic comedy

Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate.

Annie Savoy

Bull Durham · 1988

★ 2.9

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Food and sex. Those are my two passions.

George Costanza

Seinfeld · 1997

★ 2.2

Scripture · Religious literature

King Solomon loved many strange women.

1st Kings 11:1

538 BC

★ 2.1

What hath night to do with sleep?

John Milton

Comus · 1634

★ 2.1

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Drama (film) · Comedy drama · Drama

It ain't never too hot or never too cold—for fuckin'!

Sweet Dick Willie

Do the Right Thing · 1989

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

Alright, we did the horizontal mambo!

John Gustafson

Grumpy Old Men · 1993

★ 2.0

Film · Road movie · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

Fuck a lot of women, kid. I have no reason to lie to you. Not one woman, a lotta women.

Edwin Hoover

Little Miss Sunshine · 2006

★ 2.0

Personal journal

Whom one gets into bed with is no light matter.

Paul Gauguin

★ 2.0

Play · History (play)

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 1.9

Poem

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; Love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

1784

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Alfred Kinsey

1966

★ 1.9

Poem

The summer hath his joys, And winter has delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Third Book of Ayres · 1617

★ 1.9

Novel

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

Malcolm Lowry

1947

★ 1.9

Film · Coming of age (film) · Comedy (film) · Coming of age · Comedy

Imagine how many people out there right now are fuckin’ man...just goin’ at it.

Ron Slater

Dazed and Confused · 1993

★ 1.9

The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield

1773

★ 1.8

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—"free-love"—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.

G.K. Chesterton

1901

★ 1.8

Novel

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn.

Erica Jong

1973

★ 1.8

The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse.

Claes Oldenburg

★ 1.0

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