“I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.”
Quoted in Lewis, John: Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles (2017), p. 91.
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Erich Segal (1937–2010) American writer
Variant: What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
1970s, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
O caso triste, e dino da memória,
Que do sepulcro os homens desenterra,
Aconteceu da mísera e mesquinha
Que depois de ser morta foi Rainha.
Stanza 118, lines 5–8 (tr. Ezra Pound); of Inês de Castro.
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto III
Marcus Sedgwick (1968) British writer and illustrator
Source: The Foreshadowing
“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe, and leaves before she is left.
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”
James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
As quoted in "Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer", by Shaoni Bhattacharya, New Scientist (28 February 2003) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3451#.VHpLJzGsWPY.