Brothels Quotes

• The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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• The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Artist, Best Job

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

  Frederic Raphael

  Food, Great Restaurants, Mouths

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• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

  William Blake

  Law, Religion, Stones

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

  Bradley Cooper

  Running, Party, Thinking

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• If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

  St. Jerome

  Saying Less, Soul, Devil

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• No-one was ever made wretched in a brothel.

  Cyril Connolly

  Made, Wretched

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• I passed by the brothel as though
  past the house of a beloved.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, House, Beloved

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

  Ben Hecht

  Names, Hollywood, Thirty

  "Colombo's Hollywood: wit and wisdom of the moviemakers". Book by John Robert Colombo, p. 150, 1979.

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• Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

  Michael Glawogger

  Sex, Kissing, Boys

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Men, Modesty, Affair

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.81

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• Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Years, Use, Actors

  "America’s Most Serious Twentysomething Actor". Interview with Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. March 30, 2006.

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• The Building of European Commission would be perfect for a brothel.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Perfect, Would Be, Building

  gazeta.pl, May 05, 2014.

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• In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

  Shane Claiborne

  Kings, Guy, Use

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Hands, Feet

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

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• The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Singing

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.190, Penguin

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• One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

  Arthur Koestler

  World, May, Emotion

  'Darkness at Noon' (1940) 'The Second Hearing' ch. 7

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• I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.

  Stephen Rea

  Thinking

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• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  Yannick Noah

  Unbearable, Payment, Taxes

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• Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Doors

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• There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.

  Antonin Artaud

  Theatre

  Antonin Artaud (1999). “Collected Works”, Riverrun Press

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• When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

  Warren Buffett

  Girl, Running, Investing

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• I'll leave it to you, Sassenach," he said dryly, "to imagine what it feels like to arrive unexpectedly in the midst of a brothel, in possession of a verra large sausage.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Sausage, Imagine, Midst

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.873, Dell

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• We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Girl, Lying, Together

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.148, Penguin

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