Preserved Flower Quotes & Sayings

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham

Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved. — Victoria Hislop

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility. — Marcus Aurelius

You're allowed to look, sweetheart, he murmured, running a finger down her hot cheek. I enjoy having your eyes on me. — Cherise Sinclair

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play. — David Duchovny

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item. — Claude Levi-Strauss

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said ... "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells ... and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower ... both strange and familiar. — Cornelia Funke

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective. — Bertrand Russell

The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and of the universe. — Milan Kundera