Francis Quarles Quotes

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

Vice is its own reward.

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

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

Love delayed is lust augmented.

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

There have certainly been many periods in history when virtue was more rare than under the Caesars; but there has probably never been a period when vice was more extravagant or uncontrolled.

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.