Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual…

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

— Jill Tweedie

Men willingly believe when they want to.

— Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish.

— Julius Caesar

Rarely we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

— Samuel Johnson

“Sandrine opened her eyes to the soft gray light of early dawn. Recollections of sensual pleasure seemed to caress her body, bringing a smile…

— Paul A. Myers

Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a…

— Gustave Flaubert

I remember when my mother taught me about my menstrual cycle and pregnancy. She, like millions of other mothers before and since, did not…

— Christiane Northrup

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us…

— Pauline Kael

“There was no way he was going to… But that was exactly what he did. I gasped when I felt his tongue tentatively flick…

— Sloane Kennedy

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced…

— Ayn Rand

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for…

— Giacomo Casanova

In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as…

— Saul Bellow