Wanton Quotes

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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous… — William Prynne
Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a… — Unknown Author
It took the love of a good man [to heal]. When I was reverting back into my, let's say, perversions, he would say: 'Let's go… — Tori Amos
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than… — Margaret Cavendish
North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing? Not the worst review the movie got. — Tina Fey
In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace… — David Ben-Gurion
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside… — Robert Wright
Itâ€™s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; itâ€™s a question of what you will do, and… — Daniel James Brown
Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those in… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour. — Jacobus Arminius
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing… — Thomas B. Macaulay
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things… — Logan Pearsall Smith
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps,… — Francis Quarles
I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My… — William Shakespeare
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. — Charles Kingsley
When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million… — Walter E. Williams
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and… — Winston Churchill

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