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“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.”

Beauty Affirmation Lechery

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.”

Sex Wine Drinking Appetite Reformation Sobriety Venus Vice Amorous Lechery

Book:The Complete Essays

Source: The Complete Essays

“I've had Good and I've had Bad, and the worst I had was Wonderful!”

Sex Innuendo Lechery

Book:Puppies

Source: Puppies

“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.”

Book:The Queen's Fool

Source: The Queen's Fool

“Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs.”

Philosopher Legs Lechery

Book:Weymouth Sands

Source: Weymouth Sands

“Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.”

Energy Lows Lust Substitution Lechery

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.”

Should Asks Sex Wife Willing Return Commit Restraint Adultery Lechery Committing Adultery

Author:Saint Augustine

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

People Men Lying Understanding Imposing Lechery

Book:Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...

Source: Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: to which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, by John Aubrey, Esq: The Whole Now First Published from the Originals in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum, with Biographical and Literary Illustrations ...

“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.”

Intellectual Hypocrisy Lechery

Book:No Clouds of Glory

Source: No Clouds of Glory

“I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.”

Wells Wife Poet Honor Phrases Infidelity Lechery

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries”

Body Heaven Sin White Hell Heard Flesh Your Body Tinder Lechery

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.”

Lust Secretive Lechery

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

Giving Self Desire Passion Interest Pride Mets Ambition Contempt Vengeance Ridicule Self Interest Heartfelt Lechery Most Heartfelt

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“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.”

Men Facts Stories Form Turns Love Is Theology Versions His Love Avarice Avid Lechery Midas

Book:Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

Source: Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

“The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.”

Lying Atheism Taught Murder Slavery Favors Stealing Drunkenness Lechery

Author:Charles Chilton Moore

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

Desire Performances Drinking Alcohol Provoking Alcoholism Drinking Alcohol Macbeth Play Lechery

Author:William Shakespeare

“My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen”

Humans Past Faces Form Mother Lord Dog Portions Offense Decency Beard Goats Hinder Human Faces Randy Times Past Lechery

Author:David Eddings

“Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.”

Desire Three Sleep Painting Drink Performances Drinking Alcohol Noses Provoking Three Things Funny Alcohol Lechery

Author:William Shakespeare

“Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.”

Love Stills War Fashion Lechery

Author:William Shakespeare

“Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.”

Doe Three Sleep Painting Drink Alcohol Noses Provoking Alcoholism Three Things Lechery

Author:William Shakespeare

“I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.”

Want Sex Hurt My Own Loss Sin Healing Sorrow Drug Program Originals Satisfaction Alcohol Wounds Fulfillment Sickness Ritual Pollution Needy Original Sin Purification Vagrants Leeches Lechery

Author:Lydia Lunch

“It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.”

May Said Desire Drink Performances Alcohol Provoking Mars Alcoholism Lechery

Author:William Shakespeare

“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”

Needs Helping Wife Cold Help Me Prompts God Help Crucible God Help Me Lechery

Author:Elizabeth Proctor