Carnal

Famous quotes containing the word carnal:

    But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he felt for his mother or sister.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    The hermit’s carnal ecstasy.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)