Desire Quote by Saint Augustine

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

— Jude Deveraux

“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

— John Milton

“Canst paint a doleful cry?”

— Thomas Kyd

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

— Thomas Beecham

You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'

— Gore Vidal