Ardent Desire Quotes

Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine." -Simon to Daphne

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.