Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“It is an Age where any sort of debauchery is tolerated, as long as it brings fame with it.” — Ian Pears Copy Share Image
“You can’t just jump into debauchery one night and expect to get the hang of it by morning. It takes years.” — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
I wrote the word debauchery, but when I re-read it, I thought I had written douchebaggery. Both words would work... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman.” — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and soul, finally come to an end?” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“I relish my debauchery. I don't regret it or shy away from it and pretend that I'm gonna stop it. This is… — Jason Myers Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to… — Johnny Hart Copy Share Image
“He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who… — Liam O'Flaherty Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Women beg me for it, and not the other way around." "Then you should go to one of them." "Oh, I will.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?' 'Forty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“The word "slut" has been invoked in the public discourse as an ugly slur. But Langella's book celebrates sluttiness as a worthy… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house… — Chris Kluwe Copy Share Image
“There, at the top of the table, alone amongst all these women, stooped over his ample plateful, with his napkin tied around… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man and very well thought of, I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied. I nibbled their… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
How utterly futile debauchery seems once it has been accomplished, and what ashes of disgust it leaves in the soul. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image