On Love and Sex Quotes

“It is the extramarital love affair that destroys a marriage, not extramarital sex with a prostitute.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“in order to write good English one should be familiar with the Bible as well as European fairy tales, nursery rhymes and even nonsense verse like the limericks of Edward Lear. I read them not for fun but as the basics of literature.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“There are two themes I wish to illustrate through this almost entirely true short story. The first is that God compensates women He does not endow with good looks in His own mysterious ways. A plain-looking, homely type of girl need not envy her better-looking sisters because men are more likely to make passes at her than at girls who resemble Marilyn Monroe or Prema Narayan. He makes good-looking lasses haughty and arrogant and only gigolo types have the confidence to approach them. That is why the plainer-looking have a better time with men and end up making better marriages than pretty ones who seldom have a satisfying sex life and usually make disastrous marriages.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“Don Marquis: ‘Mayhem, death and arson have followed many a thoughtless kiss not sanctioned by a person.’ There”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“Because sex has been condemned and suppressed, ‘it has become an obsession, a disease, a perversion’, says the Acharya, and advises us to ‘accept sex with joy.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse is the first step towards it. He maintains that religion as it is practised, is false, and its propagators are agents of Satan. They have degraded love and taught us the negation of life. The philosophy of religion has always been death-oriented instead of being life-oriented.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“I came to the conclusion that all you have to do is to fall in love with one person to love his or her community.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex

“came to the conclusion that all you have to do is to fall in love with one person to love his or her community.”
― Khushwant Singh, On Love and Sex