Satiety Quotes
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From abundance springs satiety.
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More Satiety Quotes
Yield, ladies, yield to love, ladies, which lurketh under your eyelids whilst you sleep and playeth with your heartstrings whilst you wake, whose sweetness never breedeth satiety, labour weariness, nor grief bitterness.
john lyly— 1588 Gallathea, epilogue.
Oh, theyarepolitic: they knowourdesireisincreased by the difficulty of enjoying, whereas satiety is a blunt, weary, and drowsy passion.
john webster— 1612 Of women.TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.1.
The nineteenth century will colonize; so, in its fantasies, did the nineteenth century soul. When Emma [Bovary] turns spendthrift and buys curtains, carpets and hangings from the draper, the information takes on something from the theme of the novel itself: the material is a symbol of the exotic, and the exotic feeds the Romantic appetite. It will lead to satiety, bankruptcy and eventually to nihilism and the final drive towards death and nothingness.
v. s pritchett— "Gustave Flaubert: The Quotidian" (p. 130)
From abundance springs satiety.
— Book III, sec. 1
