Antidote Quote by William Congreve Download Open image “O, she is the antidote to desire.” — William Congreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antidote Desire
She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.” — Shelly Thacker Copy Share Image
What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Desire is when you ache to see her and touch her, when she causes your body to burn and tremble. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo” — william congreve Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root? — William Congreve Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
Beto is banking on his sacharrine positivity as the ultimate antidote to President Trump's honest saltiness. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Medical men have searched the world for remedies, desiring an antidote. Chiropractors find the cause in the person ailing. — B. J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
