Top 33 Courtesan Quotes
#1. She hauled herself up from the streets, for she was once no more than a courtesan. She is reputed to rule her husband; they say that beneath her fine gowns hangs a prick and her balls clang together like a ring o' bells for the doge has none.
Marina Fiorato
#2. You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#3. Cam hadn't been this entertained in a long time. No sensual depravities, no skilled courtesan, not even a room full of unclothed women, could have interested him half as much as Miss Amelia Hathaway and her red ribbons.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. Whore or courtesan, she put on a great little show.
Sylvia Plath
#5. If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
Jacqueline Carey
#6. What did a Lord need with a courtesan and why marry one? The little voice in my head screamed a warning.
Rae Z. Ryans
#8. Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.
Alexandre Dumas
#9. Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.
Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
#10. With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.
Pietro Aretino
#11. The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
Pietro Aretino
#12. You're as bad as your master," he muttered, scarce audible amid the sea-sounds. "Worse. At least he didn't ply his words from a courtesan's lips.
Jacqueline Carey
#13. We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers. But we could not believe that the child of a courtesan would prefer to live in a Delhi brothel rather than in our palace in Iran!
Khushwant Singh
#14. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.
Christina Dodd
#15. A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.
Roland Barthes
#16. It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.
Mary Renault
#18. She wasn't a courtesan, nor an intellectual, nor the mother of a family - she was nothing at all. And
Francoise Sagan
#19. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.
Richard B. Garnett
#20. Black Pearl was the most famous courtesan of all. "She's descended from the dragons, that one," the woman had told Cat. "The first Black Pearl was a pirate queen.
George R R Martin
#21. I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.
Marie Helvin
#22. The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.
Anne Stuart
#24. Hence all original religions are allegorical, or susceptible of allegory, and, like Janus, have a double face of false and true
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#25. I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.
Cora Pearl
#26. I am a planet orbiting my sun," He whispered, forcing me to step closer to hear him. "I am only Mathias.
Shari Richardson
#27. Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in
principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic
definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#28. So sweet and delicious do I become,
when I am in bed with a man
who, I sense, loves and enjoys me,
that the pleasure I bring excels all delight,
so the knot of love, however tight
it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
Veronica Franco
#29. Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864
Cora Pearl
#30. When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
Gary Neville
#31. You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#32. I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.
Caleb Followill
#33. I was performing my ritual of sipping tea, shooting flirtatious glances and planning murder
Mingmei Yip
