“And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?”
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Famous Marquis de Sade Quotes
Source: Letters from prison
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.”
Source: Juliette
“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
Source: The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas
“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
Source: Juliette
“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.”
“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
“Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.”
“All universal moral principles are idle fancies.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”
Source: Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
“Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.”
Source: Juliette
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.”
Source: Juliette
Source: Selected Letters
“Religions are the cradles of despotism.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
“Sensual excess drives out pity in man.”
Source: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
Source: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
“Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.”
Source: Juliette
Source: De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux
Source: Juliette
Source: Letters from prison
“Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.”
“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
Source: Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings