Brothels Quotes - Page 2

Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Cassandra Clare

May, Scandal, Sides

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That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Gustave Flaubert

Drinking, Men, Rivers

Gustave Flaubert (1954). “The Selected Letters”

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Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

Vivian Mercier

Girl, Dream, Sex

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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

Malcolm Muggeridge

Music, Men, Piano

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The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

Sonia Faleiro

Giving, Bars, Streets

Source: www.motherjones.com

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On one hand, prostitutes don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. In Bangladesh it's different because they live in the brothel, it's sort of a prison, but still there are two sides. When they think of their religion and their upbringing, they can be very moralistic. They're moralistic about giving blow jobs. On the other hand, they have an everyday life where there's no room for shame.

Michael Glawogger

Jobs, Struggle, Blow

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If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

Max Hastings

Jobs, Royal, Pianist

"The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.

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And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

M. Ageyev

Together, Males, World

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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

Cato the Younger

Husband, Blessed, Lust

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During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

Chuck Palahniuk

War, Hair, Soldier

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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

Guy Browning

Book, Mean, Understanding

"How to... use a library" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2003.

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I make films about working class people. All my films have always been about that. For example, the brothel is a workplace. It's aberrant, but a workplace nonetheless. I was more interested as opposed to glamorizing and saying, oh, this is a great erotic place, it's a place of business. The commodity is sex.

Taylor Hackford

Sex, Class, People

Source: www.pbs.org

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Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

Yanar Mohammed

Parent, Growing, Young

"Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.

Arthur Phillips

Fall, Reflection, Night

Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

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A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.

Ibn Warraq

Spiritual, Men, Ideas

Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.

Jimmy Carter

Girl, Country, Reality

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The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.

Niall Ferguson

History, Racist, Prosperity

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I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

Fabian Perez

Father, Character, Gambling

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For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels.

Aldous Huxley

People, Battle, Would Be

Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Julian Barnes

Memories, Lying, Imagination

Julian Barnes (1984). “Flaubert's parrot”, Vintage

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I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.

Ruby Wax

Book, Imagination, Looks

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One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

Michael Ende

Children, Doors, Numbers

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Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically. We believe with certainty that an ethical life can be lived without religion. And we know for a fact that the corollary holds true - that religion has caused innumerate people not just to conduct themselves no better than others, but to award themselves permission to behave in ways that would make a brothel-keeper or an ethnic cleanser raise an eyebrow.

Christopher Hitchens

Believe, Awards, Eyebrows

"God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. April 25, 2007.

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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Doors, Knocking

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On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

Michael Glawogger

Struggle, Squares, Hands

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