“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Then, if to make your ruin more,
You'll peevishly be coy,
Die with the scandal of a whore
And never know the joy.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“A kind of losing loadum is their game,
Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“How blest was the created state
Of man and woman, ere they fell,
Compared to our unhappy fate:
We need not fear another hell.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
“Merely for safety, after fame we thirst,
For all men would be cowards if they durst.”
― John Wilmot, quote from The Complete Poems
John Wilmot
Born place: in Ditchley, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
Born date April 1, 1647
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“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world's affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence.”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from V.
“Fall, though, is the worst. Few things are worse than fall in New York. Some of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats would disagree, but most of the things that live in the lower intestines of rats are highly disagreeable anyways, so their opinion can and should be discounted.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from Mostly Harmless
“I’m in love with her. Like, really in love with her. Crippling, debilitating, paralyzing love.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from November 9
“Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien."
"Yeah, but he's a cute one.”
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“Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.”
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