Marquis de Sade Quotes

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

She make me beg for it until she give it up

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

At the moment my head is my own. In a moment it will be yours and you can do with it what you will.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

You pay me tribute, by that you become my slaves.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

I ask for so little.Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.