Quotes about lust

But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. [Matthew 5:28]

— Bible

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.

— Jimmy Carter

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

— Edward Dahlberg

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

— Aldous Huxley

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

— Camille Paglia

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

— Marquis De Sade

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

— Marquis De Sade

This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.

— William Shakespeare

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

— George F. Will

No one ever suddenly became depraved.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal