"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always……" — Marquis de Sade
"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."
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135 Quotes by Marquis de Sade
Marquis de Sade has 135 quotes on this site.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.
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Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving…
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to…
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught…
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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican…
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe…
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In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre…
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Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.
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More Always Runs Quotes
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The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
— Bruce Lee
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The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs…
— Gough Whitlam
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The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.
— Dan Rostenkowski
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself…
— Vaclav Havel
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Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor…
— Janet Evanovich
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The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs…
— Bruce Lee
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The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by…
— Andy Grove
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Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.
— Barry Ritholtz
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