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Quotes About Sensuality

I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.
~ Charles Dickens
I have a collar of pearls... On the ivory breast of a queen they have rested... I have topazes, yellow as are the eyes of tigers, and topazes that are pink as the eyes of a wood-pigeon, and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats. I have opals that burn always, with a flame that is cold as ice, opals that make sad men's minds, and are afraid of the shadows.
~ Oscar Wilde, "Salomé," 1891
Asymmetrical kisses, the sexiest yearning — one lip on nostalgia, the other, love yet earning
~ Terri Guillemets
Her persuasive kisses were hard, deep, and intoxicating.
~ Craig D. Slovak
Hot lovers don't feel the cold.
~ Dutch proverb
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
~ Gloria Leonard
There may be some things better than sex, and some things may be worse. But there is nothing exactly like it.
~ W. C. Fields
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
~ Graham Greene
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
~ Grant Morrison
Often when she thought she was reading his body
~ Greg Egan
The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Ses mains alors s'épanouirent Comme des fleurs de soir et luirent, Ses yeux dont soudain s'éblouirent Les dormantes glaces d'effroi De voir bayer leur sombre dame, Princesse ou fée ou simple femme
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Das Weib, die allgegenwärtige Wirklichkeit, brennt sich uns nackt ins Blut, und wo wir mit ihr kämpfen müssen, da ziehen wir sie am besten erst recht nackt aus, in der Tat oder Vorstellung, so gut wir eben können
~ Gustav Meyrink
Lust on this scale was rare: it seemed a crime to waste it.
~ Guy Bellamy
Les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Writing to touch with letters, with lips, with breath, to caress with the tongue, to lick with the soul, to taste the blood of the beloved body, of life in its remoteness; to saturate the distance with desire; in order to keep it from reading you.
~ Helene Cixous
H. Havelock Ellis
~ Coprolagnia
If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I want to kiss every soft place of you, make you blush and faint, pleasure you until you weep, and dry every tear with my lips. If you only knew how I crave the taste of you. I want to take you in my hands and mouth and feast on you. I want to drink wine and honey from you. I want you under me. On your back. I'm sorry. You deserve more respect than that. But I can't stop thinking of it.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There's nothing wrong with enjoying the sexiest thing in the entire world. It is the greatest path to self discovery.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The wisdom of a woman lies in her sensuality.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
~ James Joyce
he said it was sweeter and thicker than cows then he wanted to milk me into the tea...
~ James Joyce