They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
![“They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/080/umberto-eco-313_allure_they-the-templars-had-read-avicenna-and_1993593.jpg)
![“In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned…” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f58/edward-gibbon-710_cases_in-the-most-rigorous-roman-laws-a-wife-w_2829227.jpg)
