Famous Marquis de Sade Quotes

  • I want to be the victim of his errors. – Marquis de Sade

    I want to be the victim of his errors.– Marquis de Sade

  • Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. – Marquis de Sade

    Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.– Marquis de Sade

  • Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think… – Marquis de Sade

    Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think…– Marquis de Sade

  • Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me – Marquis de Sade

    Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me– Marquis de Sade

  • The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest. – Marquis de Sade

    The state of a moral man, is one of tranquillity and peace; the state of an immoral man is one of perpetual unrest.– Marquis de Sade

  • In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man. – Marquis de Sade

    In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.– Marquis de Sade

  • …that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals… – Marquis de Sade

    …that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals…– Marquis de Sade

  • If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. – Marquis de Sade

    If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.– Marquis de Sade

  • Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite. – Marquis de Sade

    Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.– Marquis de Sade

  • We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves. – Marquis de Sade

    We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.– Marquis de Sade