50 Classic Quotes About Sex

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1.

I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

—Woody Allen


2.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

—Oscar Wilde


3.

During sex I fantasize that I’m someone else.

—Richard Lewis


4.

Usually I’m on top to keep the guy from escaping.

—Lisa Lampanelli


5.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

—Abraham Lincoln


6.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

—Hunter S. Thompson


7.

When a guy goes to a hooker, he’s not paying her for sex, he’s paying her to leave.

—Author Unknown


8.

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

—Charles Bukowski


9.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: “Please stop sucking my dick or I’ll call the police.”

—George Carlin


10.

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

—Lily Tomlin


11.

If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.

—Dorothy Parker


12.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

—Henry Miller


13.

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

—Suze Orman


14.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

—G. K. Chesterton


15.

In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.

—Fritz Lang


16.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

—John Barrymore


17.

Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.

—John Callahan


18.

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

—Nelson Algren


19.

The only burning passion I’m sure I have is the passion for sex.

—Robert Crumb


20.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

—R. D. Laing


21.

Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but it’s always worth trying.

—Pamela Anderson


22.

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp


23.

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor


24.

Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships.

—Sacha Baron Cohen


25.

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

—Norman Lindsay


26.

Sex isn’t hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

—Tatiana Maslany


27.

The more sexual partners a woman has had, the more likely it is that she is depressed.

—Mark Regnerus


28.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

—Al Goldstein


29.

You know the worst thing about oral sex—the view.

—Maureen Lipman


30.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

—Raquel Welch


31.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

—John Updike


32.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

—Norman Mailer


33.

Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.

—Lewis Grizzard


34.

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

—Hugh Hefner


35.

There’s few problems an orgasm won’t solve.

—Michelle Foster


36.

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

—John Waters


37.

Sex is God’s joke on human beings.

—Bette Davis


38.

I remember the first time I had sex—I kept the receipt.

—Groucho Marx


39.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

—Nora Ephron


40.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

—John Barrymore


41.

Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.

—Kingsley Amis


42.

The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

—Alfred Kinsey


43.

Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life.

—Ayn Rand


44.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

—Billy Crystal


45.

Never fuck anyone you wouldn’t want to be.

—Kate Bornstein


46.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

—Hugh Hefner


47.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

—Camille Paglia


48.

If you have good sex, you’ve done a lot right in life.

—Rebecca Murphy


49.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

—Sophia Loren


50.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

—Marilyn Monroe

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