logo

Quotes About Desire

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.
~ Winston Churchill
I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.
~ Cesar Romero
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
~ Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
~ Clarence Darrow
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
~ Cleveland Amory
Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports
~ Colin Cowherd
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
~ Confucius
A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.
~ Curt Siodmak
But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.
~ Dustin Hoffman
There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.
~ Eleanor Parker
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men like to pleasure us, girl. They like to undo our plaits and give us water to drink from their own mouths. That's what makes the world go round.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.
~ Frank Bettger
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.
~ Gelett Burgess
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
~ George Santayana
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.
~ Gershon Legman
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.
~ Graham Greene