Libertine Quote by Thomas Pynchon Download Open image ““As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.”” — Thomas Pynchon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Libertine Libertine Letter Spread Thighs Thighs Libertine Young Stencil
“And just as he had earlier, during their lunch hour, insinuated the problem of innocence to the formalists - which had incensed them and… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“... in the youth of middle age--square-shouldered, stocky, decisive, blatantly virile-- ...” — A.J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“good for my thighs; all this humping of books, good for my biceps.” — Carole Matthews Copy Share Image
“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They were all coltish legs, bound chests and smooth scalps. They no longer whispered behind their hands and hid behind shy glances. They joked and drank, smoked and swore with the boys. Waistlines had slipped, fabrics were thin and… — Kate Morton Copy Share
“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swallen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share
“He acted like a libertine of Europe with a genteel Southern propriety—and had all the morals of an emotionless psychopath. The two former masked… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“though some gifted tailor had almost succeeded in camouflaging his plump and spankable bottom.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“The goal, Sister Clare had taught them in school, was shorthand so neat and so legible that anyone can pick up your steno book… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Youth, like a flame, burned ever in his breast, and to youth he turned, to the round little limbs, so reckless, that wanted care, to the small round faces so unreasonably solemn or bright, to the treble tongues, and the shrill, chuckling laughter, to the insistent tugging hands, and the feel of small bodies against his legs, to all that… — John Galsworthy Copy Share
“Her every movement transfixed him; she was graceful and refined. She’d become a woman. An elegant woman.” — Jan Moran Copy Share Image
“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Music's totally eclectic now. I saw a DJ the other day, he was on Virgin radio over here, and he said he played "Going… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a… — Elisabeth Guigou Copy Share Image
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before… — Bob Jones, Sr Copy Share Image
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
![“Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . . There is a vast difference between [that] reputation . . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.” quote by Elisabeth Guigou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c7/elisabeth-guigou-158784_care_dominique-strauss-kahn-has-always-had-a_356608.jpg)
