Courtesans Quotes
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Courtesans Quotes & Sayings
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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
We have to have the faithful in government.
— Katherine Harris
You read the past in some old faces.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
My only hope was to be polite.
— Mark Vonnegut
Now my uncle knew many of them [actresses] personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind.
— Marcel Proust
The divine moment is holy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.
— Jennifer McMahon
it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetite were satisfied
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
— Philip Emeagwali
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
— Frank Scoblete
We got plenty of money in Washington. What we need is more priority.
— George W. Bush
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
— Twyla Tharp
She was definitely more covered-up than the courtesans around him. But sometimes there was more allure in not seeing everything.
— Sarah J. Maas
No damned thing from the vasty deeps is going to get the better of me in my own home.
— Simon R. Green
Filming is repetition and many takes.
— Max Von Sydow