Quotes About Libertines

#1. She rose. 'You mean,' Catherine d'Albon said, 'I have agreed to marry a libertine?'

'Everyone marries libertines,' Lymond said comfortably, rising and taking her elbow. 'But not everyone knows it beforehand.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

Bailey White

#3. When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#4. Calvin had a talent for inventing abusive nicknames and he styled this amorphous opposition 'Libertines', which had a conveniently scandalous resonance, while also reflecting the undoubted fact that his opponents sought a freedom for which he saw no need.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#5. The atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

#6. . . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. We're gonna be ... I mean people like you and me ... we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

Armistead Maupin

#8. I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

Ed Westwick

#9. Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

Al Stewart

#10. But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Carl Barat

#11. And the red sun of desire and decision (the two things that create a live world) rose higher and higher, while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand, toasted the bliss of past and future nights.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

Charles Bracelen Flood

#13. It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

Bob Jones, Sr.

#14. What I ought to do and what I feel like doing are seldom the same thing.

Elisabeth Elliot

#15. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

Grant Morrison

#16. I fall in love with this life all over again. It's only when I try to live it myself that I have trouble. It never feels genuine.

Veronica Roth

#17. Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable.

Deirdre Madden

#18. Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

John Currin