LUST

Related Subjects: Adultery, Appetite, Avarice, Desire, Love, Passion, Sin, Vice, Whore

1. To couple is a custom,
   All things thereto agree:
   Why should not I then love,
   Since love to all is free?—Anonymous
   

2. To be carnally minded is death.—Bible, Romans 8:6
   

3. For men have ever a likerous appetite
   On lower things to perform their delight
   Than on their wives, be they never so fair,
   Nor never so true, nor so debonair.
   Flesh is so newf angel, with mischaunce,
   That we can in no thing have pleasaunce
   That tendeth unto virtue any while.—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

4. There's times when you'll think that you mightn't,
   There's times when you'll know that you might;
   But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown,
   They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!—KIPLING, The Ladies
   

5. The new lust gives the lecher the new thrill.—JOHN MASEFIELD, The Widow in the Bye Street
   

6. When Lust
   By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
   But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, 
   Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
   The soul grows clotted by contagion,
   Imbodies and imbrutes.—MILTON, Comus
   

7. Lust, thro' some certain strainers well refin'd,
   Is gentle love, and charms all womankind.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

8. There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said,
   Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
   My soul abhors the tasteless dry embrace
   Of a stale virgin with a winter face.—POPE, January and May
   

9. Though Argus hundred eyes in watch doth keep,
   Yet lust at length will lull them all asleep.—FRANCIS ROUS, Thule
   

10. Lust is the oldest lion of them all.—MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFERT, An Italian Chest
    

11. I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

12. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
    Is lust in action; and till action, lust
    Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
    Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
    Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
    Past reason hunted ; and no sooner had,
    Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
    On purpose laid to make the taker mad.—SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet CXXIX
    

13. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,
    But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;
    Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
    Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done:
    Love surfeits not. Lust like a glutton dies;
    Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
    

14. The lusts and greeds of the Body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.—LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts