propensities quotes

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

- Edmund Burke
  Two Letters on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory, 9th edn.

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

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  In conversation with the actor-manager David Garrick. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.