Desire

I can resist everything except temptation.

Urge and urge and urge,

Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori

Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

The desire of the moth for the star,

[Dancing is] a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

C’est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.

Where’s the man could ease a heart like a satin gown?

Why is it no one ever sent me yet

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

when asked if she really had nothing on in a calendar photograph:

on being asked what she wore in bed: Chanel No. 5.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,

O for a beaker full of the warm South,

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

… Duas tantum res anxius optat,

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.