Venus, thy eternal sway
All the race of men obey.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
He is not a lover who does not love for ever. — Euripides
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane. — Alexander Pushkin
Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed. — Catharine MacKinnon
Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity. — Michael Jackson
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.] — Juvenal
Perversity is the muse of modern literature. — Susan Sontag
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion. — Isabel Allende
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat — Michel de Montaigne
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs. — Paco Rabanne
Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair. — John Milton
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. — Ambrose Bierce
Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. — Max Ernst
Fur Quotes
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills. — Gary Yourofsky
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. — William Ralph Inge
To lead the good life in New York, the two most important things for a woman are a chauffeur and a fur-lined raincoat. If you have those two things, you’re made. — Iris Apfel
The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. — Elinor Wylie
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me. — James Franco
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. — Ellsworth Huntington
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there. — Ernest Hemingway
I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. — Lance Loud
Venus Quotes
The match the whole world, Jupiter, Saturn , Venus... Or anywhere else is waiting for. — Randy Savage
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells. — D. H. Lawrence
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love. — John Ralston Saul
Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will. — Eugene Delacroix
There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was magic, I felt the bond between us.
She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus,
The Earth to my sun, moon and stars,
We added up mathematically...
It's like I had a bad habit, B! — Ghostface Killah
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés. — Nicholas Kurti
If unconditional love, loyalty, and obedience are the tickets to an eternal life, then my black Labrador, Venus, will surely be there long before me, along with all the dear animals in nature who care for their young at great cost to themselves and have suffered so much at the hands of humans. — Richard Rohr
The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves. — Jacque Fresco
Fur Coat Quotes
Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm. — Jeanne Schinto
I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live. — P. W. Botha
I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars. — Peta Wilson
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. — Joseph Epstein
I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats. — Gemma Arterton
I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature. — Diana Ross
A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant. — Seymour Hicks
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her. — Bryan Ferry
When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas. — Noel Gallagher
It was a pretty posh place. They were so used to fur coats that two bears strolled in and ordered lunch and nobody even noticed. — Chic Murray
Venus De Milo Quotes
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. — Mary Pickford
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug. — Tom Verlaine
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. — Heinrich Heine
Talking pictures are like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. — Mary Pickford
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful. — Charles Fort
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel then, woman or man? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Above all else I am a dilettante in life. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you in it as in a net. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
My heart is a void, dead, and this makes me sad. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius. — Nina Arianda
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