Dissolute Quotes
19 quotes by 16 authors
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career…
— Hallie Erminie Rives
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally…
— Giambattista Vico
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little…
— Violet Trefusis
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Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it…
— Violet Trefusis
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The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
— Wilfred Bion
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This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic--has contributed…
— David Sheff
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Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not…
— Anthony the Great
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
— Andre Gide
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
— Andre Gide
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There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise,…
— Frederick Lenz
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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
— Giambattista Vico
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May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in…
— Arundhati Roy
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He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side.…
— Anne Stuart
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Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there…
— Marquis de Sade
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I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My…
— Osamu Dazai
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty…
— John Milton
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I was completely crazy and mad when I was young. I was absolutely in love with the dissolute.
— John Hurt
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Dissolute: How you should greet a superior officer
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Dissolute Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 19 Dissolute Quotes as follows: