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Quotes About Desire

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
~ Karl Kraus
I have yet not been able to answer the great question that has never been answered. 'What does a woman want?
~ Sigmund Freud
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
~ Karl Kraus
For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.
~ Molly Haskell
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.
~ Satchel Paige
A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
~ Marcel Proust
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
~ Oliver Reed
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
~ Famke Janssen
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
~ Coco Chanel
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress.
~ Unknown
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
~ Fanny Brice
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
~ Mae West
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?
~ Bill Hicks
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
~ Rudolph Valentino
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
~ Terence
The whole thing about the women is, they lust to be misunderstood.
~ Will Rogers
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women.
~ Fontenelle
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
~ Ovid
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~ Joel Rosenberg
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
~ Ovid