Libertine Quotes

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. counsel. (William Shakespeare)
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. View quote
George Bancroft
I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty. View quote
Primo Levi
One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is, that is, I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, "Well, that's OK, I mean y'know, contraception is OK." It's not OK. It's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They're supposed to be within marriage. They're supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal ... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. View quote
Rick Santorum
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. View quote
George Santayana
She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader. View quote
Alexis Arquette
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. View quote
Susan Holloway Scott
Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity. View quote
Marquis de Sade
The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. View quote
William Pitt the Younger
As spread thighs are to the libertine, flights of migratory birds to the ornithologist, the working part of his tool bit to the production machinist, so was the letter V to young Stencil. (Thomas Pynchon)
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
"Liberalism and libertinism are intertwined. The more liberal a woman, the more libertine she'll be-and the more she'll liberate herself to be coarse, immodest, vulgar and plain repulsive. View quote
Ilana Mercer
The transition from libertine to prig was so complete. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald