Sex Quotes

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Andy Warhol

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Peter Ustinov, Interview by Wend

A sex symbol becomes a thing.... I just hate to be a thing.

Marilyn Monroe, As quoted in Ms.

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Gore Vidal, In Homage to Daniel

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

George Burns

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Kevin Bacon

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Emma Goldman

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

Kurt Vonnegut

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

Timothy Radcliffe

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

Eugenie Clark

Sex is a short cut to everything.

Anne Cumming

Hair is another name for sex.

Vidal Sassoon

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock

There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break.

Michael Douglas

The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.

James Baldwin

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

James Baldwin