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Quotes About Lust

I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.
~ Jim Brown
Remove prostitutes from human affairs, and you will destroy everything with lust.
~ Saint Augustine
An eternally favorite deadly sin, lust fascinates through experience: our appetites and passions of sight, sound, taste, touch, and scent. We anticipate what it might be like to fulfill a craving, and that anticipation pulls us closer. As early as the sixth century AD, lust emerged as public enemy number one for Christians. And not without reason. Overcoming desire is no easy task. Buddhism presents the overcoming of desire as an ideal.
~ Sally Hogshead
For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
~ Samuel Butler
But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,
~ Samuel Johnson
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
~ Samuel Johnson
And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity.
~ Sandra Brown
He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks she named it." "This is not my mother's bra." Rain clamped her jaw shut defiantly, then demanded to know, "How did you ever see my mother's underwear?
~ Sandra Hill
Her snooch got all warm
~ Sandra Hill
In Ancient Greek literature male poets tend not simply to portray women as lecherous but to attribute to them a species of lust different from that of males: a subhuman and automatic reflex, an animalistic urge. Sappho is important because she gives a fulle human voice to female desire for the first time in Western history. Since she defiantly chooses the quintessential love-object Helen of Troy as her freethinking agent, she seems fully conscious of the revolutionary claim she is making.
~ Sappho
Abel wanted to know all about flesh and how it responded to skin, tongue, velvet, fur, lips. His enthusiasm was contagious. I'd been a good-enough lover before, but Abel inspired my curiosity and my lust. Sex wasn't just better than I'd ever known it could be; it was more interesting. There were tools to explore, sensations to try, tastes and textures to experiment with, states of consciousness to achieve or discard.
~ Sara Gran
Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.
~ Sara Gruen
For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted.
~ Margaret Weis
We always want what we can't have.
~ Marian Keyes
The powerful man takes as his right the love he desires, if but for a night.
~ Marie de France
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
~ Marina Warner
Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose
~ Mario Puzo
wet, turgid flesh.
~ Mario Puzo
Se besaron con avidez y desesperación, primero en los labios y, luego, abriendo las bocas, confundiendo sus lenguas, intercambiando sus salivas, mientras las manos de cada una le quitaban —le arranchaban— a la otra el camisón hasta quedar desnudas y enredadas; giraban
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
When men desire each other, they crash together like wrecking balls, quenching their need right then and there, as if the world were about to end.
~ Marisha Pessl
It is said that marriage is a long war between ancient families trapped in close proximity by lust.
~ Mark Helprin
They say, Write what you know. What do you know? Love, anger, despair, enmity, fear, empathy, lust, worry, trust & more. You know life.
~ Mark Rubinstein
after which he followed up with the style of "Stealing Peaches beneath the Leaves
~ Anthony C. Yu
Proving that you are hot, worthy of lust, and—necessarily—that you seek to provoke lust is still exclusively women's work.
~ Ariel Levy