Aphrodisiac Quotes

• For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

  Timothy Leary

  Ultimate

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• There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Innocence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.185, Verso

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• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Power, Definitions, Good And Evil

  The New York Times, October 28, 1973.

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• The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

  Christopher Fry

  Moon, Birth Rate, Rising

  The Lady's Not for Burning act 3 (1949)

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• Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

  Cesar Aira

  Flower, Moon, Bird

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• Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

  Norman Douglas

  Wine, Mating, Precarious

  Norman Douglas (1932). “Paneros, Some Words on Aphrodisiacs and the Like”

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• The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac. It had no place in the troll's world of instant gratification. It makes no appeal to the meat-and-two-veg mentality.

  Jane Grigson

  Views, Expression, Vegetables

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

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• Power is the great aphrodisiac.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Sexy, Power, Political

  The New York Times, January 19, 1971.

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• There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

  Manju Kapur

  Powerful, Talking, Curiosity

  Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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• The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Mother, Future, Mistress

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• The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos

  Timothy Leary

  Sports, Philosophy, Team

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• An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.

  Becky Freeman

  Powerful, Mind, Intriguing

  Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson (1996). “Marriage 911”, B & H Publishing Group

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• Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Eye, Desire

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Music, Broken Heart, Rejection

  "Song: "Forbidden Love" (Album: "Bedtime Stories")". 1994.

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• Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Sexy, Talent, Gifted

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• All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

  Saul Bellow

  Marriage, Writing

  "Dailer's Choice" by Harriet Van Horne, The New York Magazine, Volume 10, No. 13, p. 80, March 28, 1977.

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• Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Powerful, Flower, Wells

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  Country, Numbers, Chocolate

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• Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Truffles

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• Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Negative, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aphrodisiacs come in many forms: food, drink, the internet.

  Craig Ferguson

  Internet, Drink, Form

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• The coolest thing is when you don't care about being cool.

  Rick Owens

  Care, Don't Care, Being Cool

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• People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

  Linda Stone

  People, Desire, Attention

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• Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.

  Zan Perrion

  Honesty

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