Quotes with sensual

  • There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
  • But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Carlos Williams But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Haniel Long In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • John H. Aughey Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
    John H. Aughey
    American clergyman and writer (1828 - 1911)
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  • Ann Landers Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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