And Debauchery Quotes

#1. War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery, - this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor

W.E.B. Du Bois

#2. 13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Anonymous

#3. Wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan.

Bernard Lewis

#4. I'm too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.

J.C. Wickhart

#5. Western tourists transform Thailand into its own little planet of indulgence. Time has no relevance and debauchery, no consequence.

Maggie Young

#6. This gray little town fifty miles north of Paris acquired an outsized reputation for royal scandal, misbehavior, and debauchery, which in eighteenth-century France was saying something.

Tom Reiss

#7. Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man's good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Hal Duncan

#8. One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Blaise Pascal

#9. I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

Damien Echols

#10. While you were off getting hair and makeup done for the wedding, I was planning bondage and debauchery in the woods.

R.K. Lilley

#11. What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

Plutarch

#12. He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and handsome, he could easily have worn a badge that said READY FOR DEBAUCHERY!

Sergei Lukyanenko

#13. I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?

D.H. Lawrence

#14. To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

George Santayana

#15. The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you'll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you'll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.

Roman Payne

#16. The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

Moby

#18. Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#19. If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!

Pawan Mishra

#20. Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

Cassandra Clare

#21. It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

Mark Morford

#22. Weyler, the brute, the devastator of haciendas, and the outrager of women . . . is pitiless, cold, an exterminator of men," ran one such account. "There is nothing to prevent his carnal, animal brain from running riot with itself in inventing tortures and infamies of bloody debauchery.

Stephen Kinzer

#23. You can't just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.

Jennifer Crusie

#24. Father, everybody has mugs these days. It's not a sign of debauchery and disrepute to drink tea from a mug.

Val McDermid

#25. But now, all of a sudden, there appeared before me the absurd, loathsomely spiderish notion of debauchery, which, without love, crudely and shamelessly begins straight off with that which is the crown of true love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. Layla, darling, I shall be ready whenever you decide to retire to the country and commence on a life of unending debauchery.

Eloisa James

#27. I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

Anais Nin

#28. Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.

Roman Payne

#29. The young man void of understanding may be depended upon to fall into the ditch of debauchery without much pushing, and

Robert B. Parker

#30. What is it the Bible teaches us? - repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

Thomas Paine

#31. Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.

Mordecai Richler

#32. So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and
soul, finally come to an end?

Gustave Flaubert

#33. 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Sue Townsend

#34. What's your specialty?
Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

Darynda Jones

#35. For Sade, man's emancipation is consummated in these strongholds of
debauchery where a kind of bureaucracy of vice rules over the life and death of the men and women who
have committed themselves forever to the hell of their desires.

Albert Camus

#36. See Social-life and Glee sit down,
All joyous and unthinking,
Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown
Debauchery and Drinking

Robert Burns

#37. I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people, - that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.

Leo Tolstoy

#38. To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Nicole Brossard

#39. Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

Johnny Hart

#40. He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.

Emile Zola

#41. When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

Georges Bataille

#42. Good God, it's like a burly pirate landed in my bed and is waiting for another round of debauchery.

Kristen Callihan

#43. Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

Mike Yaconelli