Illicit Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
— Meryl Streep
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We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is…
— Richard Louv
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I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would…
— Kristin Bauer van Straten
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to…
— Thomas Mann
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually…
— George Soros
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes…
— Michel Faber
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There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in…
— Madeleine Albright
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Goodness gracious me,†exclaimed Alexia, “what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and…
— Gail Carriger
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What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do:…
— Lorrie Moore
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He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.
— J R Ward
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They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters…
— John Edward Williams
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I still couldn’t stop the sick feeling rising in my stomach. “This could be a disaster.†“How? If anyone even finds it—and it’s not just…
— Richelle Mead
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Never seek illicit wealth.
— Confucius
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating…
— Sarah Churchwell
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We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob…
— James Harvey Robinson
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals -…
— Ed Royce
Who Wrote These Illicit Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 39 Illicit Quotes, led by these top contributors: