Famous quotes containing the word harlot:
“Every harlot was a virgin once.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses,
Delilah of the spirit.”
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957)