Quotes about Debauch

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If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It — Charles Baudelaire
To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are ne — Georges Bataille
Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely — John Barth
Nevertheless man has found love, which is not a bad reply to that sly Deity, and he has adorned it with so much poetry t — Guy de Maupassant
Shame on you. Don't tell me you've been married for an hour and you've already got eyes for another woman. — Mordecai Richler
Everyone’s mind has sort of a slum division—a flirtatious spot that doesn’t give a hoot about how grave a situation is b — Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point! — Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
O woman, thou art my imperfection! — Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
There are flowers growing in hell. Let's go pick them! — Naoyuki Ochiai, Syndrome 1866 T08
We who burrow in filth every day may be forgiven perhaps the one sin that ends all sins. — Vladimir Nabokov
What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that t — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good charact — Hal Duncan, Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites
When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibbled their hearts like — Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of Jesus — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Sleep had ceased to be a mere physical necessity; it was something voluptuous, and debauch more than a relief. — George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London & the Road to Wigan Pier
Look, de Mazel, you've known him for years - hasn't he been known to sleep for forty hours in two days?' 'Forty hours?' — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the mid — Roman Payne, Crepuscule
Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. — Roman Payne, The Wanderess
She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from — Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way