Cole Porter Quotes

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

I love to tease men with my legs.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.

Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

I flirt all the time. I like men! I don't think we can do without them.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

Shakespeare, I come!

I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Look, Rose. You don't have to keep up with the hard-to-get thing. You already got me.

You keep talking like that, Vane, and I might be forced to keep you.” “You keep looking at me like that, and I just might let you.

When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material.

It’s not lying, it’s flirting.