LUST QUOTES V

quotations about lust

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

ALEXANDRA IVY

Embrace the Darkness


But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

BIBLE

Matthew 5:28

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Lust is what it is; it never lies.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Flirt

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A satyr, which is half man and half beast, is the emblem of lust; to show that its followers prostitute the reason of man to gratify the appetites of a beast.

J. N. FUNCK

attributed, Day's Collacon


O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

attributed, The Seven Deadly Sins: A Companion

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Love lives with Nature, not with lust.
Go find her in the flowers.

JOHN CLARE

"Stanzas", Selected Poems


Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit
To some brute creature to attribute it)
Shall be presented in the second place,
Because it shrouds a vile deformed face
Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name,
Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

GEORGE WITHER

"Of Desire, or Lust", Poems


Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

HERBERT SPENCER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

J. USHER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and unbridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue.

THOMAS JEVON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust has no eyes.

TAMIL PROVERB


What's wrong with lust or covetousness, or concupiscence or libido? Aren't they natural? Yes indeed -- viciously natural. For in this context they signify disordered or discordant appetites, especially the disordered or discordant sexual appetite.

EDMUND HILL

Being Human: A Biblical Perspective


Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

ZOROASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ... ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

MARQUIS DE SADE

attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable


I know the very difference that lies
'Twixt hallowed love and base, unholy lust;
I know the one is as a golden spur,
Urging the spirit to all noble aims;
The other but a foul and miry pit,
O'erthrowing it in the midst of its career;
I know the one is as a living spring
Of virtuous thoughts, true dealings, and brave deeds--
Nobler than glory, and more sweet than pleasure--
Richer than wealth, begetter of more excellence
Than aught that from this earth corrupt takes birth,
Second alone in the fair fruit it bears
To the unmixed ore of true devotion:
I know that lust is all of this, spelt backwards;
Fouler than shame, and bitterer than sorrow,
More loathly than most abject penury--
Nor hath it fruit or bearing to requite it,
Save sick satiety and good men's scorn.

FANNY KEMBLE

The Star of Seville: A Drama in Five Acts

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Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

ST. BASIL

attributed, Day's Collacon


A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit,
Confounded in that Babel of the pit;
Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,
Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child;
Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts,
Before the play, or else between the acts;
Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds
Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"To Mr. Congreve", The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems

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Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust
Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel;
And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds,
Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

JOHN MILTON

Comus: A Masque


Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Introductions and Reviews

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