Quotes About Lechery

#1. Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

Germaine Greer

#2. Percy must have perceived, early in her marriage, that her husband's lechery was compulsive and incurable, but she was determined, like any other lover, to authenticate her suspicion.

John Cheever

#3. And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Walter Isaacson

#4. Tis better to have love and lust
Than to let our apparatus rust.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#6. Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?

J. Gresham Machen

#7. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

Elizabeth Proctor

#8. Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses...

Glen Duncan

#9. I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

John Hewson

#10. I've had Good and I've had Bad, and the worst I had was Wonderful!

John Valentine

#11. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes and unprovokes. It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore,

William Shakespeare

#12. There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

John Aubrey

#13. A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.

Thomas Wolfe

#14. God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

Victoria Osteen

#15. All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Marian Engel

#16. Deadly Sins on a long, yellow legal tablet: Pride, Greed, Envy, Lechery, Gluttony, Anger, Laziness.

Jim Harrison

#17. It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.

Warren Austin

#18. Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.

Barry Lyga

#20. How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#21. Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

Mason Cooley

#22. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#23. There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

William Shakespeare

#25. Was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him - the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.

Aleksandar Hemon

#26. Lechery?" he asked with a wink, guessing from the hour that I had been with some palace kitchen-maid.
"Oh aye, most vile," I said cheerfully, and jumped into the boat.

Philippa Gregory

#27. I wonder why I'm so uneasy naked," she said. "Maybe it's the gimlet-eyed lechery of my gaze," I said. "Probably," she said.

Robert B. Parker

#28. Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.

David Gelernter

#29. It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

Nelson Mandela

#30. If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

C.S. Lewis