Fay Weldon Quotes

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

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.

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

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

Passion should always trump common sense.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Reason is not what decides love.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I don't think when I make love.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.