Lust

Lust is an intense desire or craving. It can take many forms, such as the lust for knowledge, the lust for sex or the lust for power.

Quotes

• Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
  • Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part. 3. Sec. 2.

• Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.
  • Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614), Act II, scene vi.

• They are only safe
  That know to soothe the prince's appetite,
  And serve his lusts.
  • Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor (1626), Act I, scene i.

• Lust is an arrogant and haughty beast and far from subtle.
  • Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42.
• Love is more cruel than lust.
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dolores (1866), stanza 20.

• Ring out the narrowing lust of gold.
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850), Canto CVI, stanza 7.

• Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
  Auri sacra fames?
  • Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
    What will not men to slake such thirst?
  • Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, lines 56-57 (translated by John Conington).

• Lust carries her sharp whip
  At her own girdle.
  • John Webster, The White Devil (1612), Act II, scene i.

• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
  Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.
  • John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (1623), Act V, scene v.

• Natural freedoms are but just:
  There's something generous in mere lust.
  • John Wilmot, A Ramble in St. James' Park (1672).

The Bible

• Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matthew 5:27-28 (KJV).

• Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
  • Romans 13:14 (KJV).

• Silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.
  • 2 Timothy 3:6 (KJV).

• Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
  • 1 Peter 2:11 (KJV).