“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”
Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
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German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837Related quotes
“There was nothing under her clothes but girl and assorted items of lethal hardware.”
Robert A. Heinlein book The Puppet Masters
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 4 (p. 28)
“Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."
Epigrams
“He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.”
Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again
Book II, Ch. 21: Love is Not Enough
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
“Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!”
Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician
Source: blog, 4 November 2010
Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
As cited in: Kay Larson, " The thin man https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZckBAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70," New York Magazine, 7 October 1985, p. 70 <br class="br">Giacometti, 1985
“Where there’s war, there’s whores.”
Bruce Sterling book Islands in the Net
Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 168)
“Alas! for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!”
Thomas Hood The Bridge of Sighs
The Bridge of Sighs (1844), st. 9.
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