Best Concubines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Princes are fighters or administrators. Neither of those things do much to spread joy in the world. Whores, concubines, and catamites, on the other hand, are all about giving satisfaction. Now granted, sexual pleasure is a temporary sort of happiness, but it is better than a new tax or a sword in the gut.”

Joy Taxes Princes Concubines

Book:Concubine

Source: Concubine

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”

“In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was cursedly confin'd: When Nature prompted, and no Law deni'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride; Then, Israel's monarch, after Heaven's own heart, His vigorous warmth did variously impart To wives and slaves: and, wide as his command, Scatter'd his Maker's image through the land.”

Men Heart Kind Made Use Law Heaven Sin Wife Land Slave Israel Wide Command Crafts Priests Makers Warmth Brides Vigorous Pious Impart Monarchs Polygamy Promiscuous Concubines

Author:John Dryden

“O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.”

Giving Dream Christ Sacred Lips Singers Virgins Concubines

Book:The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

Source: The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer

“The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.”

Ifs Wanted Wife Figures Testament Abraham Old Testament Approved Concubines

Author:Desmond Tutu

“15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.”

Concubines

Author:Gary Coleman

“What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.”

Done Cities Direct Iraq Expected Humiliation Isis Enslavement Concubines

Author:Yanar Mohammed

“Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”

Christianity Queens Goddess Muse Priestesses Concubines

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.”

Men Let Me Ugly God Love Concubines

Book:Rebekah

Source: Rebekah

“On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.”

People Stills Earth Fall Edges Flats Feathers Spices Sofas Over The Edge Concubines

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.”

Thinking Knows Men Moments Names Wife Bounds Princess Tenderness Concubines

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.”

Source: Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition

“The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.”

Ifs Enough Stories Passion Lost White Race Risk Century Willing Kings Scene Built Boring Love Story Breathing Burned Testament Mansions Getting Lost Concubines

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?”

Breakup Concubines

Author:Ha Jin

“I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.”

Dream Wonder Class Bed Lows Screens Worried Related Quirky Depiction Concubines

Author:John Cassavetes

“Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.”

People Want May Book Reality Lying Language Masters Lovers Drug Pursuit Stealing Command Enjoyed Range Gentle Schemes Shelves Dope Book Lover Concubines

Author:Robertson Davies

“Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?”

Men Children Ideas Religion Strong Clear Wife Return Ideals Biblical Testament Old Testament Evangelical Family Man Concubines

Author:Ira Reiss

“At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.”

Age Grandmother Fifteen My Grandmother Warlords Concubines

Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

“I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.”

Wells May Children Reality Father Parent Depends Our Children Institutions Slavery Feminist Granted Stability Cynical Arrangements Family Life Misandry Concubines

Author:Sylvia Fraser

“The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.”

Bores Concealed Concubines

Author:Geoffrey Beene