The Marquis De Sade Quotes

#1. Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#4. A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade.

Albert Camus

#5. I'm afraid, ha, ha, I find more inspiration in the Marquis de Sade.

Christopher Isherwood

#6. A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).

Philippe Lejeune

#7. I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the spanking thing," said Luscious Skin.
"That's very Maria," said Pancho. "She takes her reading seriously.

Roberto Bolano

#8. Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to the Marquis De Sade?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'

David Ansen

#10. I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)

L.G.A. McIntyre

#11. Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain

Marquis De Sade

#12. When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.

Dennis Cooper

#13. Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction that reading leads to trouble. So it does; so it must, for reading leads nowhere but to questions.

Richard Seaver

#14. It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering for real, not for sexual games. I have no interest either in being a victim or in turning others into victims.

Francoise Gilot

#15. Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marquis De Sade

#16. One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Marquis De Sade

#17. Those who are unhappy
clutch at shadows, and to
give themselves an enjoyment
that truth refuses them, they
artfully bring into being all
sorts of illusions.

Marquis De Sade

#18. My vengeance needs blood.

Marquis De Sade

#19. He's not getting out of here again ... But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.

Rachel Caine