Aldous Huxley Quotes

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

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

Ice cream is my vice.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

The more you have, the more you want L'appetit vient en mangeant

Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

He's not the relationship kind or so I hear." "And do you want a relationship?" I asked her. "No." She laughed, dabbing her fry. "But I have a feeling with someone like him, you get one taste and you will always want more." "Sort of like crack?" Jacob suggested. "Or Cheetos," Brit supplied.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store