Quotes About Debauchery

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

The party was long over, and only alcoholics and drug addicts were left to rifle through the last of our things.

I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.

Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have ceased to exist, whereas now all efforts are employed, not in extirpating debauchery, but in favoring it, by assuring the harmlessness of the consequences.

This gray little town fifty miles north of Paris acquired an outsized reputation for royal scandal, misbehavior, and debauchery, which in eighteenth-century France was saying something.

Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

The debauchery of leveraged speculation attracted endless small fry with big dreams, always the most irresponsible actors in the market. Minor millionaires fooled themselves into believing they had "made it big" and could multiply their loot indefinitely.

What about my Girls Gone Mild life leads you to believe I'm a body shot shy of debauchery? Is it the pearls?

A life of debauch and the abuse of liquors debased, day by day, a countenance that was once so handsome. The veins of the face were swollen with blood, the features became coarse, the eyes lost their lashes and grew hard and dry. No longer careful of his person, Philippe exhaled the miasmas of a tavern and the smell of muddy boots, which, to an observer, stamped him with debauchery.

It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.

Sabíais que el Creador... se emborrachaba? ¡Piedad para ese labio mancillado en las copas de la orgía!

Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?

Commitment is an enactment of all promises made to make the beneficial impact for humanity without any debauchery act to keep intact reality, truth and fact.

Around these strange people I felt hungry. I smelled some kind of debauchery, the whiff of a potion that would banish everything plaguing me.

Everyone knew how they dripped with perfume, were corrupt from soft living.

Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell A peerless peer the readiest way to Hell? I've outswilled Bacchus, sworn of my own make Oaths would fright Furies, and make Pluto quake; I've swived more whores more ways than Sodom's

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,

Te voilà ! petit Parisien, me dit le père Dodu. Tu viens pour débaucher nos filles ? — Moi, père Dodu ? — Tu les emmènes dans les bois pendant que le loup n'y est pas ? — Père Dodu, c'est vous qui êtes le loup. — Je l'ai été tant que j'ai trouvé des brebis ; à présent je ne rencontre plus que des chèvres, et qu'elles savent bien se défendre !

Jamais la pitié ne s'empare aussi fortement de nous qu'au spectacle de la beauté atteinte par le souffle délétère de la débauche.

Genesis 9:18–27. This is the account of the debauchery of Noah, and the indiscreet discovery of his naked drunkenness by his son Ham. Ham told his brothers of their father's condition, but they, averting their eyes from the humiliating sight, did not see what Ham had seen, and were therefore spared the curse that Noah

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.