Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love?

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.

I like kissing people because it's funny.

And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Love is a friendship set to music.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.