Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. — Edmond de Goncourt 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
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
“He looked just perfect to play Dorian Gray in a film version of Oscar Wilde's novel. Young, graceful, and indecently fresh and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“But now, all of a sudden, there appeared before me the absurd, loathsomely spiderish notion of debauchery, which, without love, crudely and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory… — Anne Desclos 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
What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not care for this place. It feels like a den of debauchery,” a wide yawn cut off his sentence, “and… — Stacey Rourke Copy Share Image
May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like no-one is watching, screw… — Anonymous Toast Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones… — Lord Chesterfield 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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![“He [Maxime] was twenty, and already there was nothing left to surprise or disgust him. He had certainly dreamt of the most extreme forms of debauchery. Vice with him was not an abyss, as with certain old men, but a natural, external growth.” quote by Émile Zola](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/49a/mile-zola-1188_debauchery_he-maxime-was-twenty-and-already-there-w_283761.jpg)
