Quotes about Desire
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
A hard man is good to find.
- Mae West
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.
- Mae West
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
- John Milton
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
- John Milton
so to add what wants in the female sex, the more to draw his love, and render me more equal, and perhaps, a thing not undesirable, sometime superior: for inferior, who is free?
- John Milton
As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.
- John Milton