Sexy Quotes

[Snukes]

Hello, kids. It's been approximately a hundred years (eleven, to be precise), since I've posted anything. Kind of nice to be back for a visit. :)

I am trying to compile a collection of sexy quotes taken from literature (or poetry), and regular google searches are turning up an overabundance of (current, mass-produced) smut. (I've got nothing against classic smut!) I could use a little help from folks who are more literature minded. So I'm here to beg for your favorite steamy, romancy, make-your-insides-wobbly literary quotes. They don't actually have to be ABOUT sex (though I'm totally down with those too), but just those passages from your favorite novels that made you shiver, or sigh a dreamy sigh, or snuggle a little closer to the one you were with.

The quality of literature in question doesn't have to be super specific or classic, I just want things that weren't written by Nora Roberts or Danielle Steel or that 14-year-old girl pretending to be philosophical and wise in the form of a meme. I've been having a little more luck with poetry than with prose, but I'd love to get a bit more prose in on the, eh hem, action.

A few good one's I've found:


The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity. George Orwell, 1984

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

I love your lips when they’re wet with wine and red with wicked desire. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul
like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks. ~Sappho

i like my body when it is with your
body.... which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur...
~e.e. cummings (my current favorite quote)

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. ~Gustave Flaubert, letter to his wife Louise Colet, 1846

Thanks for your thoughts!

[mortalterror]

"So we slanted to the right (where the East was), and Joe pounded away so wonderfully, that I had to hold on tight to keep my seat." -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Do you know what I touch here?” she said, laying her hands, one upon the other, on her left side.
“Yes, ma’am.” (It made me think of the young man.)
“What do I touch?” -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I sometimes have sick fancies,” she went on, “and I have a sick fancy that I want to see some play. There, there!” with an impatient movement of the fingers of her right hand; “play, play, play!” -Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"I would, sir, I could see you gay again.’
‘What do you mean, ma’am?’ blustered Bounderby. -Charles Dickens, Hard Times

(it is really impossible to express how he twisted this ejaculation out of himself, as he peeped round the door-post at me, showing nothing but his crafty old head); -Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards. -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

"I hope you preserved all precautions, Mrs. Hudson?" said Holmes.
"I went to it on my knees, sir, just as you told me." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

She did in her own heart infinitely prefer boobies to clever men who wrote dissertation. -Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

"Even the architecture, the rococo decoration itself, evoked thoughts of fleshy curves and taut erect breasts; and every opening door seemed like a curtain rustling in a bed alcove."

"The two lovers embarked for Cythera on a ship made of dark and sunny rooms, of apartments sumptuous or squalid, empty or crammed with remains of heterogeneous furniture."

"Then silence would fall again, except for the scuffle of rats in the ceiling above, or the rustle of some centuries old and forgotten letter sent wandering by the wind over the floor; excuses for pleasant frights, for measuring contact of flesh on flesh."

Excerpts from "The Leopard" by Giuseppe do Lampedusa

[Lokasenna]

Probably not what you are after, but there is the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award: https://literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award

This year it was won by Morrissey's novel, List of the Lost, for the following passage:

"At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone."

[wreade1872]

The Faerie Queene

Book II, Canto VII
" The wanton Maidens him espying, stood
Gazing a while at his unwonted guise;
Then th'one her selfe low ducked in the flood,
Abasht, that her a straunger did avise:
But th'other rather higher did arise,
And her two lilly paps aloft displayd,
And all, that might his melting hart entise
To her delights, she unto him bewrayd:
The rest hid underneath, him more desirous made.

With that, the other likewise up arose,
And her faire lockes, which formerly were bownd
Up in one knot, she low adowne did lose:
Which flowing long and thick, her cloth'd arownd,
And th'yuorie in golden mantle gownd:
So that faire spectacle from him was reft,
Yet that, which reft it, no lesse faire was fownd:
So hid in lockes and waves from lookers theft,
Nought but her lovely face she for his looking left.

Withall she laughed, and she blusht withall,
That blushing to her laughter gave more grace,
And laughter to her blushing, as did fall:
Now when they spide the knight to slacke his pace,
Them to behold, and in his sparkling face
The secret signes of kindled lust appeare,
Their wanton meriments they did encreace,
And to him beckned, to approch more neare,
And shewd him many sights, that courage cold could reare. "

by Edmund Spenser.

[Snukes]

These are wonderful! (I've got that Bad Sex awards link saved to peruse later - not what I needed, but awesome all on its own). Thanks all, and if anyone else has some, keep 'em coming!

[stacy55]

Well, my collection of quotes is also great!!

Look at the following :

"I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier." - Coco Lee

"Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind. " - Amisha Patel

"My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder." - Emma Watson.




Have a very good evening guys!!
Enjoy! :-)

[EmptySeraph]

Love’s Vitality: one can hardly disparage a sentiment which has survived both romanticism and the bidet.

To begin as a poet and to end as a gynecologist! Surely being a lover is the least enviable of all conditions.

Sexuality: surgery and ashes, Balkanization of bodies, bestiality of a back-number saint, racket of a risible and unforgettable collapse…

E.M. Cioran, All Gall is Divided (Syllogismed de l'amertume - in original)

[stacy55]

A few more quotes :

"I love shopping; I'm a jeans and a T-shirt kind of girl, but I go classy when I dress up - with a little bit of sexy. "

"I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy. "

"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do."

Source : Mera Status (http://www.merastatus.com/)

[ennison]

Well who would have known it about old Charles Dickens. I must go douse in cold cold water now.

[prendrelemick]

Can't remember the exact quote - but this from Sarh Maitland impressed my younger self;

She walked away on legs so long and slender he knew they must lead to something good.

[stacy55]

yeah, definitely.