Affection Quote by Francis Quarles

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

— Diogenes

Lust is a ruinous and otherwise gratuitous, malignant desire. It's is a hunger for that which should never be consumed; it's a thirst for…

— Colby Tatem

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and…

— Francis Quarles

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness…

— Pliny the Elder

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

— Plato

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body…

— Jeremy Taylor

Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There…

— Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty,…

— Marquis de Sade

Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow,…

— Claude C. Hopkins

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

— Marquis de Sade

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

— Blaise Pascal

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

— Demonax