Quotes About Illicit Love

#1. If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.

Clyde Brion Davis

#2. There is an innate gratification in falling from grace, that the supreme pleasure of love is illicit love, a feeling that you are doing wrong.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"
"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar.

Nenia Campbell

#4. Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

Mason Cooley

#7. If ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella's silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.

William Allen White

#8. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Michael Bassey

#9. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. Better to live with the guilty secret than the open truth of their life together - that they were bound by the habit of illicit lust, mutual degradation.

Fay Weldon

#11. Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.

Jeremy Clarkson

#12. For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ...

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. Out of ignorance, out of confusion, arise the true words.

Marty Rubin

#14. I knew when I first saw you that you were the woman I would want for all my life.

Philippa Gregory

#15. Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness.

Munia Khan

#16. It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness.

Miriam Toews

#17. The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm.

Joseph Campbell

#18. What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

Andre Gide

#19. It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

Suki Kim