Oh Satan Quotes by Marquis de Sade

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named…

— Marquis de Sade

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

— Marquis de Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

— Marquis de Sade

“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover…

— Marquis de Sade

What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.

— Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make…

— Marquis de Sade

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of…

— Marquis de Sade

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

— Marquis de Sade

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

— Marquis de Sade

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever…

— Marquis de Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

— Marquis de Sade

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism,…

— Marquis de Sade