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Courtesan Quotes & Sayings

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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. — Tony Campolo

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity. — Michael Treanor

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist. — Richard B. Garnett

My mother always said to keep my eyes open for the unexpected good, the little treasures. — Jane Kirkpatrick

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it. — Jacqueline Carey

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush. — Mary Renault

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan. — Anne Stuart

I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness. — Cora Pearl

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. — Gene Simmons

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones

What I'm trying to say, Brooke Overland, is that I want to be your nanny."
That's seriously the most romantic thing I've ever heard in my life. — C.M. Stunich

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code. — Ram Dass

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. — Pietro Aretino

The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth. — Rene Girard

I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder — Mingmei Yip

She wasn't a courtesan, nor an intellectual, nor the mother of a family - she was nothing at all. And — Francoise Sagan

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864 — Cora Pearl

What did a Lord need with a courtesan and why marry one? The little voice in my head screamed a warning. — Rae Z. Ryans

You're as bad as your master," he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. "Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips. — Jacqueline Carey

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you. — B.C. Forbes

Whore or courtesan, she put on a great little show. — Sylvia Plath

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow. — Alexandre Dumas

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole