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  • Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

    Lust   Energy   Lechery  
    Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.10, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

    Wife   Infidelity   Honor  
  • The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

    Lying   Atheism   Slavery  
  • Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

    Love Is   Men   Avid  
    Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.152, Ignatius Press
  • Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

  • It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.

    Wife   Crucible   Needs  
  • Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

    Lechery  
    Gwendolyn Brooks (1963). “Selected poems”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]
  • Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

    Sleep   Alcohol   Doe  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]
  • God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

    Sex   Wife   Return  
  • Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

  • All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

    Marian Engel (1968). “No Clouds of Glory”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
  • It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

    Alcohol   Desire   Mars  
    Macbeth II. 3
  • it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]
  • I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It was time to detox. Not only from alcohol, sex, and drugs, but from needy leeches who looked to swab me with their sores. Detox from my own needy lechery. Had to locate the center wound and cauterize. Undo the original sin, the origin of my sickness...Had to learn to replace Them, It, Want, Hurt, Anger, Sorrow, Loss, with Power, Healing, Wisdom, Fulfillment, Satisfaction.

    Hurt   Sex   Healing  
  • My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

    Mother   Dog   Past  
  • Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

    Love   Fashion   War  
    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192
  • Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

    White   Heaven   Body  
    John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”
  • There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

    Lying   Men   People  
    Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813). “Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq: The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...”, p.202
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