Ancient greece Quote by Roman Payne

“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in…

— Roman Payne

“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the same time…

— John Fowles

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“May suitable doses of guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long-lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency.”

— Folco Portinari

“Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies, Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. And even though their thoughts were deemed the aristocratic voice, they also had a…

— Henry Phillips

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

— Karl Kraus

“How has the incessant, grinding campaign of socio-scientific insistence upon the naturalness of sexual monogamy combined with a couple thousand years of fire and…

— Christopher Ryan

“St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex is very…

— Robertson Davies

“it is possible with only a little extra anguish to live in this world at absolute [minimum?] loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed”

— Grace Paley

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without being seen…

— Laurent Binet