Quotes About Desire

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Sir, when their backsides look good enough to slap, there's nothing more to do.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Hair is another name for sex.

Where's the man could ease the heart Like a satin gown?