Quotes About Debauhery

When I was a drunk, New York was the greatest place in the world. You walk everywhere, everything is open until four in the morning, and people go to New York looking for debauchery.

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

But Sade behaved exactly as if he could not tolerate the possibility that his troubles might be over. He launched immediately into a new bout of provocative debauchery.

If you are evil, how can voluptuousness and debauchery be your enemies? Don't the world, the flesh, and the devil conspire equally against man?

Layla, darling, I shall be ready whenever you decide to retire to the country and commence on a life of unending debauchery.

Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry that woman often forgets the sensual part of it. Those among us who are unable to deceive themselves have invented vice and refined debauchery, which is another way of laughing at God and paying homage, immodest homage, to beauty.

The paintings, full of dark, hellish landscapes of torture and debauchery, are about chaos and its consequences.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

Gutenberg's invention in the fifteenth century set off a "round of teeth gnashing" among early humanists, who worried that "printed books and broadsheets would undermine religious authority, demean the work of scholars and scribes, and spread sedition and debauchery.

Father, everybody has mugs these days. It's not a sign of debauchery and disrepute to drink tea from a mug.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.

I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

This was no slouchy prince of wine halls and debauchery, as Easterners were said to be.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.