Quotes About Lechery

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#6. 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

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

Mason Cooley

#8. 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

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

Jim Harrison

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

John Aubrey

#12. 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

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

Glen Duncan

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

Elizabeth Proctor

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

Germaine Greer

#17. All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

Marian Engel

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

C.S. Lewis

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

Nelson Mandela

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

David Gelernter

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Barry Lyga

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

Warren Austin

#25. 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

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

John Valentine

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

#30. 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