Top 31 Debauch Quotes
#1. When reason returned with the morning - when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch - I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.
Edgar Allan Poe
#2. How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
Bill W.
#3. This book could corrupt or debauch. It would not make suitable reading for Boy Rangers, Aunt Matilda, or those contemplating a life of celibacy. - Eric Bishop-Potter on "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#4. So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. Such is the corruption of nature that the bad are much more likely to debauch the good than the good to reform the bad.
Matthew Henry
#6. After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#7. By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.
James Buchan
#8. Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement and vitality from deep and secret sources of health ... One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it.
Odilon Redon
#9. Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
Samuel Johnson
#10. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin
#11. Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?
Joanne Harris
#12. Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief.
George Orwell
#13. I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
Christina Stead
#14. It's an extraordinary thing - every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?
P.G. Wodehouse
#15. There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory.
Mark Twain
#16. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
John Maynard Keynes
#17. While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.
Peter De Vries
#18. The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch
Bram Stoker
#19. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.
D.H. Lawrence
#20. It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
George Bernard Shaw
#21. Where are we going?" Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.
"To the house. If they're not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I'll have to debauch you in front of someone else.
Lisa Kleypas
#22. How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!
Jaclyn Dolamore
#23. I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.
Ron Jaworski
#24. Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
Eric Clapton
#26. Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.
Edward Hirsch
#27. They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.
David Nicholls
#28. Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.
Leo Tolstoy
#29. I never listened to those who told me about the dark side of loving your pair.
Laura Thalassa
#30. When you walk past a bookshop you haven't visited before, you have to go in and look around. That's the family rule.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#31. The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
Douglas Leone
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