Quotes about whores

A collection of quotes on the topic of whore, making love, likeness, making.

Best quotes about whores

Walker Percy photo

“Beauty is a whore.”

The Moviegoer (1961)

Bruce Sterling photo

“Where there’s war, there’s whores.”

Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 168)

“Just cruise around until you see whores.”

Radio From Hell (March 5, 2007)

Wilson Mizner photo

“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

Anne Sexton photo

“My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.”

"Killing the Spring"
The Book of Folly (1972)

Quotes about whores

Billie Eilish photo
Martin Luther photo

“And I must speak plainly. If I were a judge, I would have such a poisonous, syphilitic whore tortured by being broken on the wheel and having her veins lacerated, for it is not to be denied what damage such a filthy whore does to young blood, so that it is unspeakably damaged before it is even fully grown and destroyed in the blood.”

Source: Table Talk (1569), pp. 552-554 (1566); cited in Susan C. Karant-Nunn & Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks [editors and translators], Luther on Women: a Sourcebook, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 157-158)

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Federico Fellini photo
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Emil M. Cioran photo
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Northrop Frye photo

“The soul is an immaculate virgin…Then it goes out and gets fucked by the world all day long & staggers back a baggy-eyed old whore, still hoping that after a sleep the Moment of purification will come again.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 27

John Calvin photo

“Let the Nuns therefore tarry still in their convents and cloisters, and in their brothel houses of Satan: yea I put the case they were not whores as they are, yea and worse than that, vile and shameful Sodomites, committing such heinous and abominable acts, that it is horrible to think of, I put the case I say, there were none of all these villainies, yet all the chastity they pretend is nothing before God, in comparison of that that he hath appointed, that is to say, that albeit it seem but a vile thing, and a matter of none account, for a woman to take pains about housewifery, to make clean her children when they be arrayed, to kill fleas, and other such like, although this be a thing despised, yea and such, that many will not vouchsafe to look upon it, yet are they sacrifices which GOD accepteth & receiveth, as if they were things of great price and honourable.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

Que donc les nonnains demeurent en leurs convents et en leurs cloistres, et en leurs bourdeaux de Satan: ie di mesmes encores qu’elles ne fussent point putains comme elles sont, comme il y a encores pis de ces abominations de Sodome, faisans des choses si enormes et si abominables que c’est une horreur: encores, di-ie, que toutes ces vilenies-là n'y fussent point, si est-ce que toute la chasteté qu'elles pretendent, n'est rien envers Dieu, au prix de ce qu'il a ordonné, c'est asçavoir que combien que ce soyent choses contemptibles, et qui semblent estre de nulle valeur, qu'une femme ait peine d'adresser son mesnage, de nettoyer les ordures de ses enfans, de tuer les poux et autres choses semblables, que tout cela sera mesprisé, qu’on ne le daignera pas mesmes regarder, ce sont toutesfois sacrifices que Dieu reçoit et qu'il accepte, comme si c'estoyent choses precieuses et honorables.
A Sermon of Master John Caluine, vpon the first Epistle of Paul, to Timothie..., London: G. Bishop and T. Woodcoke, 1579 http://www.truecovenanter.com/calvin/calvin_19_on_Timothy.html (ch. 2:13-15).
Sermons of M. John Calvin, on the Epistles of S. Paule to Timothie and Titus, Laurence Tomson, trans., Printed for G. Bishop and T. Woodcoke, 1579, p. 231. http://books.google.com/books?id=g2WDtwAACAAJ&dq=Sermons+of+M.+John+Calvin+on+the+Epistles+of+S.+Paule+to+Timothie+and+Titus&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XY8oUZXGJoq68wS494D4Dg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ (Facsimile reprint in Jean Calvin, Sermons on Timothy and Titus (16th-17th century facsimile editions), Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1983. ISBN 0851513743 ISBN 9780851513744, p. 231. "Let the Nunnes therefore..." http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=%22let+the+nunnes%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&ei=CYsoUcvQNoak8AS86oCoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42768644,d.eWU&fp=2dddfa4c5c79d088&biw=1086&bih=740
Sermons Sur la Premiere Epitre a Timothee (Sermons on the First Epistle to Timothy), Sermon 19 ("Dixneuvieme Sermon") in the Corpus Reformatorum, 1895, vol. 81 (Opera 31) p. 228. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&hs=PBY&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=%22Que%20donc%20les%20nonnains%20demeurent%20en%20leurs%20convents%20et%20en%20leurs%20cloistres%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=bks:1&source=og&q=%22comme%20il%20y%20a%20encores%20pis%20de%20ces%20abominations%20de%20Sodome%22&sa=N&tab=wp http://books.google.com/books?ei=Ts4vTMDbF4WBlAeG3fieCQ&ct=result&id=EcU8AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22volumen+lxxxi%22+reformatorum&q=convents#search_anchor.

Alberto Giacometti photo

“Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away. The others hang on and never let go.”

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
Giacometti, 1985

M. K. Hobson photo

“In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.”

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 11, “The Wages of Sin” (p. 155)

Zbigniew Stonoga photo

“I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!”

Zbigniew Stonoga (1974) Polish businessman, video blogger, social and political activist

On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n--mf4fGfkg, about the results of the parliamentary elections in October 2015 in Poland.

Rodrigo Duterte photo

“As you know, I’m fighting with ambassador (John Kerry). His gay ambassador (Philip Goldberg), the son of a whore. He pissed me off.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte insults US envoy with homophobic slur https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/10/philippines-leader-calls-us-ambassador-gay-son-of-a-whore-prompting-summons, The Guardian (10 August 2016)

Julian Assange photo

“Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore; they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves.”

Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist

Source: The Economist, 1st October 2011, p. 89

Janusz Korwin-Mikke photo

“Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!”

Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician

Source: blog, 4 November 2010

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Sadegh Hedayat photo
Ilana Mercer photo

“If regular visits with prostitutes kept the political class from launching trillion-dollar war- and welfare programs, and financing Fanny, Freddy and the Fed—I would personally contribute to a prostitution fund for Washington whores. The prostitutes would be the patriots.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

“Uncle Sam turns tricks (& stiffs sex workers),” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=650 RT, May 11, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Georg Büchner photo

“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”

Act IV.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)

Louise Brooks photo
Paul Newman photo
Sam Kinison photo
Dylan Moran photo
Scott Kurtz photo

“Despite the fact that my weapons and armor are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on ale and whores.”

PvP, Thursday, November 11, 1999 http://www.pvponline.com/comic/1999/11/11/thu-nov-11/
PvP (1998)

Thomas Wolfe photo

“He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.”

Book II, Ch. 21: Love is Not Enough
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

William S. Burroughs photo
Ernest Hemingway photo
John Gay photo
Angelique Rockas photo

“The first performance the company staged was Ford`s '`Tis Pity Shes a Whore.'”

Angelique Rockas South African actress and founder of Internationalist Theatre, London

It was well received. I like to choose the play, the directors, the designers.. it`s a total creative act.
On the production of Ford`s Tis Pity She`s A Whore`
TA NEA (London) Interview (June 1983)

John Gay photo
Robert Graves photo
Rodrigo Duterte photo

“If you don't modernize, leave. You're poor? Son of a whore! Suffer through hardship and hunger. I don't care.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

Original: (tl) To jeepney transport groups: "Pag hindi niyo na-modernize yan, umalis kayo. Mahirap kayo? Putang ina, sige! Mag... magtiis kayo sa hirap at gutom. Wala akong pakialam."

President Duterte attends federalism summit in Camarines Sur https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS/videos/10155630659415168/(October 17, 2017)

Lily Allen photo
Alexander Pope photo

“For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)

“What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

Ruth Benedict photo
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester photo

“For Wits are treated just like Common Whores;
First they're enjoy'd, and then kickt out of Doors.”

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm

ll. 38-39
A Satire Against Mankind (1679)