Lechery Quotes

• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

  William Shakespeare

  Alcohol, Desire, Mars

  Macbeth II. 3

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• Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fashion, War

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

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• It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

  Elizabeth Proctor

  Wife, Crucible, Needs

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• Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1963). “Selected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

  John Aubrey

  Lying, Men, People

  Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813). “Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq: The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...”, p.202

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Alcohol, Doe

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

  Mason Cooley

  Lust, Secretive

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• The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

  Charles Chilton Moore

  Lying, Atheism, Slavery

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• Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love Is, Men, Avid

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.152, Ignatius Press

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• Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Ambition, Pride

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• Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

  Germaine Greer

  Lust, Energy, Lows

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.10, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

  Lydia Lunch

  Hurt, Sex, Healing

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• All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

  Marian Engel

  Hypocrisy, Intellectual

  Marian Engel (1968). “No Clouds of Glory”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Wife, Infidelity, Honor

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• Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell?
  Or take your bodies honorless to Hell?
  
  In Heaven you have heard no marriage is,
  No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

  John Crowe Ransom

  White, Heaven, Body

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

  David Eddings

  Mother, Dog, Past

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• God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

  Saint Augustine

  Sex, Wife, Return

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