Quotes · Skopia

40 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

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Autobiography and memoir

Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

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.

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.

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.

Top Gun · 1986

★ 4.0

When the candles are out all women are fair.

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 · 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.

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.

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 · 2019

★ 3.7

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

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.

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.

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!

What About Bob? · 1991

★ 3.6

Scientific literature

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

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.

1973

★ 3.5

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