“Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“There was never virgin got till virginity was first lost”
William Shakespeare
“The gentle, empty, haunting faces of the young prostitutes, in virginal white and vicarage embroidery.”
James Morris
“Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.”
Bible
“Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: / And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them: / And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”
George Carlin
“I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.”
Oscar Levant
