The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!
But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.
Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.
Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.
We have sexual lust even though we know perfectly well that, because we're using contraception, it is not going to result in the propagation of our genes. That doesn't matter, because the lust was built into our brains at a time when there was no contraception.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust. . . . The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?