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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion. -- William Shakespeare
Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one. -- Mason Cooley
There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. -- John Aubrey
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. -- William Shakespeare
All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery. -- Marian Engel
It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery. -- Elizabeth Proctor
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. -- Germaine Greer
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. -- Franz Grillparzer
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 -- John Crowe Ransom
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. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Saint Augustine
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. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
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. -- Leo Tolstoy
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 -- David Eddings
The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery. -- Charles Chilton Moore

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