Desire Quote by Alexander Pope

In men we various ruling passions find, In women, two almost divide the kind; Those, only fixed, they first orlast obey, The love of…

— Alexander Pope

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

— Jules Michelet

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

— Paul Newman

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

— Anonymous

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

— Thomas Hobbes

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

— Jonathan Swift

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not…

— Frances Power Cobbe

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the…

— Edward Gibbon

Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and…

— Susan B. Anthony

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

— Karl Kraus