Wanton Quotes

61 quotes by 55 authors

Success hath made me wanton. — Ben Jonson
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off… — John Keats
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to… — Matthew Gregory Lewis
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. — W. Somerset Maugham
How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? — Bertrand Russell
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning could have been… — Virginia Woolf
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatâ€™s your name, lad?â€ â€œNewton. Newton Pulsifer.â€ â€œLUCIFER? Whatâ€™s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling creature from the… — Neil Gaiman
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage… — Thomas Mann
There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which… — Edgar Allan Poe
Hot off the presses, todayâ€™s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,â€ Evie said in a voice of… — Libba Bray
There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours… — Edmund Spenser
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease. — William Shakespeare
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be… — Saint Ambrose
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. — Thomas More
In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air. — John Webster
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. — Francis Bacon
Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy — Martin Luther

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