Quotes About Harlots

#1. Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

Richard Baxter

#2. And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.

Khalil Gibran

#4. It was an eight-harlot inn, if that's how you measure an inn. (I understand that now they measure inns in stars. We are in a four-star inn right now. I don't know what the conversion from harlots to stars is.)

Christopher Moore

#5. One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Walter Benjamin

#7. It hath evermore been the notorious badge of prostituted Strumpets and the lewdest Harlots, to ramble abroad to Plays, to Playhouses; whither no honest, chaste or sober Girls or Women, but only branded Whores and infamous Adulteresses, did usually resort in ancient times.

William Prynne

#8. Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

Alexander Pope

#9. His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes..

James Joyce

#10. I discuss with myself questions of politics, love, taste, or philosophy. I let my mind rove wantonly, give it free rein to followany idea, wise or mad that may present itself ... My ideas are my harlots.

Denis Diderot

#11. I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

#13. When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

Ian MacKaye

#14. A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man pro- duces evil things from his storeroom of evil. Matthew 12:35

Beth Moore

#15. We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Pope Leo XIII

#16. I never even tried. Because I let the world teach me to hate myself. I was a coward who needed someone else to tell me I was worth something before I took any steps to save myself.

Tahereh Mafi

#17. Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

Garry Kasparov

#18. We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.

Dalai Lama XIV

#19. If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Sherman Alexie

#20. Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.

Harlan Coben

#21. She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#22. Britain was still connected to Europe by glaciers, and it would have been possible to walk to France and not have to use the Eurostar.

Callum Evans

#23. I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.

Matt Tong

#24. There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Harold Wilson

#25. The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Ben Folds

#26. I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.

PatriciaV. Davis

#27. Even a bucket can be a weapon if it's wielded with malicious intent.

Jodi Taylor