harlot quotes

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of theterm.Theyare engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men† What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibilitythe prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
  Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in- law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

Wine and womenwill make men of understanding to fall away: and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus19:2.

The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet.

-William Blake
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.113^6