Quotes: Lust

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Douglas Horton

American minister and academic (1891-1968)

I lust love to play football.

Ray Nitschke

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Michel de Montaigne

French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533-1592)

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

Irving Babbitt

American academic and literary critic (1865-1933)

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Mason Cooley

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It’s hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn’t afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Tori Amos

American singer-songwriter and pianist

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

English philosopher (1588-1679)

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr

Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (1880-1971)

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

John Lahr

American theater critic (born 1941)

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Mason Cooley

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