Quote by D.H. Lawrence

“I have to confess that while I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would…

— John Green

“I was shocked at the revelation of her vaulting ambition, her greed. I should have loathed her or, knowing what kind of a person…

— F. Sionil José

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”

— Peter Benchley

“He was his own victim, his own slave. He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could…

— Jim Thompson

“The limitations of necessity made him free. He loved the necessity which exercised his faculties, and brought before his vision what he loved to…

— Julius Meier-Graefe

“To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a ‘righteous’ form of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to…

— Lauren Oliver

“No wonder so many women had succumbed to this man, had thrown away their reputations and their honor for him…had even, if rumor could…

— Lisa Kleypas

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money .…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope