Florville And Courval Quotes

“Respectable?...Not another word, my dear, for I assure you of all the sentiments I should like to inspire respect is the very last: love is what I wish to arouse. Respect! I am not yet old enough for respect.”
― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love

“...it is only in the darkness of the grave that man will find the peace which the wickedness of his fellows, the tumult of his own passions, and, above all, the inevitability of his fate shall eternally deny him in this life.”
― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love

“And there you see what happens to the promises of eternal love which we women are foolish enough to believe! The more affectionate we are, the more likely it is that our seducers will desert us...the unfeeling brutes...the more we try to keep them, the greater the chance that they will abandon us.”
― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love

“Those who have no principles are never more dangerous than when they reach the age when they lose all sense of shame. Their hearts are gangrened by depravity, they refine and polish up their first offences and convert them into heinous crimes while still believing they are still at the stage of minor misdemeanours.”
― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love

“It is very easy not to like what you do not know. But no one should be allowed not to want to know what is made to be liked very much indeed.”
― Marquis de Sade, The Crimes of Love