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'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

Last updated on: February 5, 2013 15:58 IST
Megan Fox

With Valentine's Day around the corner, we bring you some of the cutest, funniest (and some outrageous) things said about love and sex.


Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally.

- Megan Fox

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Marilyn Monroe

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

- Marilyn Monroe

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Conan O'Brien

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now'.

- Conan O'Brien

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Colin Firth

Love is a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.

- Colin Firth

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Simon Cowell

The feelings that we equate with love -- feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating -- that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her'. Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

- Simon Cowell

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Bette Davis

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

- Bette Davis

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Cher

Men are a luxury. Not a necessity.

Men should be like Kleenex...soft, strong, disposable.

- Cher

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Coco Chanel

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

- Coco Chanel

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Lady Gaga

If you're lying in bed next to someone who really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.

- Lady Gaga

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Bette Midler

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

- Bette Midler

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Zsa Zsa Gabor

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Alan King

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

- Alan King

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Alanis Morissette

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

- Alanis Morissette

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Albert Einstein

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

- Albert Einstein

'Men are a luxury': Best quotes on love and sex

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Billy Crystal

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

- Billy Crystal