Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

Love taught me that your honour did but jest.

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.