a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a li…

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being amusing.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

sex is a commodity just like anything else.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

- Sydney Biddle Barrows