WHORE

Related Subjects: Lust, Sin, Temptation, Vice, Wickedness

1. Who drives an ass and leads a whore,
   Hath pain and sorrow evermore.—Anonymous
   

2. For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.—Bible, Proverb 5:3-5
   

3. Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go.—Bible, Isaiah 3:16
   

4. The harlot's cry from street to street
   Shall weave old England's winding-sheet,
   The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
   Dance before dead England's hearse.—BLAKE, Auguries of Innocence
   

5. For no man tells his son the truth
   For fear he speak of sin;
   And every, man cries, "Woe, alas!"
   And every man goes in.—DANA BURNET, Sisters of the Cross of Shames
   

6. Sampson with his strong Body, had a weak Head, or he would not have laid it in a Harlot's lap.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

7. Wanton look and twinkling, Laughing and tickling,
   Open breast and singing,
   These without lying
   Are tokens of whoring.—HAZLITT, English Proverbs
   

8. In calling a prostitute an "unfortunate" the Victorians wished to imply that a prostitute was someone who had invested in the wrong stock, in spite of the advice of more experienced investors.—HUGH KINGSMILL, Matthew Arnold
   

9. Once a whore, and ever a whore.—HENRY PARROT, Laquei Ridiculosi
   

10. And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
    Till all the whores were burnt alive.—MATTHEW PRIOR, Paulo Purganti
    

11. A woman that paints puts up a bill that she is to let.—Proverb
    

12. In silk and scarlet walks many a harlot.—Proverb
    

13. A young whore, an old saint.—Proverb
    

14. No, he hath enjoy'd her:
    She hath bought the name of whore thus dearly. .. .
    She hath been colted by him.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

15. I have heard I am a strumpet; and mine ear,
    Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,
    Nor tent to bottom that.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

16. Ever your fresh whore and your powder'd bawd.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

17. Your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, used painting.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

18. A common stale.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

19. A housewife that by selling her desires
    Buys herself bread and clothes.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

20. Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
    Made to write "whore" upon?—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

21. If to preserve this vessel for my lord
    From any Other foul unlawful touch
    Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

22. I cannot say "whore":
    It does abhor me now I speak the word;
    To do the act that might the addition earn
    Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

23. This is the fruit of whoring.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

24. Be whores still;
    And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,
    Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up.—SHAKESPEARE, Tinton of Athens
    

25. I never heard she was a naughty pack.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation
    

26. Indeed the profession she followed was one of those that emphasize the dim notion that lies at the back of many minds: the notion that we are not necessary to anyone, that attachments weave and unweave at the mercy of separation, satiety and experience. The loneliest associations are those that pretend to intimacy.—THORNTON WILDER, The Woman of Andros
    

27. When dying sinners, to blot out their score,
    Bequeath the church the leavings of a whore.—EDWARD YOUNG, Love of Fame
    

28. The whore is proud her beauties are the dread
    Of peevish virtue, and the marriage-bed.—EDWARD YOUNG, Love of Fame