"Satiety" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... when I see her among the pillows with loosened flowing hair, she seems an absolute stranger, a beautiful woman, but the beloved soft lines are gone. This face is hard and has an expression of weariness and satiety. ...
— Venus in Furs • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
... talkers was dining in a country farm-house, when, among other vegetables on the table, cabbage was one. After despatching the first supply, he was asked by the hostess if he would take a little more, when he said, "By no means, madam. Gastronomical satiety admonishes me that I have arrived at the ultimate of culinary deglutition consistent with the code ...
— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate
... smiled my companion. "We have fed them to satiety from the flesh of ourselves and our enemies!" he quietly interpolated, as he turned to ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... But then came satiety and weariness and inconstancy on the part of the husband, who soon commenced the pleasing pastime ...
— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... them so many things, what can I tell you that you do not know of these white sirens, impenetrable apparently but easily fathomed, who believe that love suffices love, and turn enjoyments to satiety by never varying them; whose soul has one note only, their voice one syllable—an ocean of love in themselves, it is true, and he who has never swum there misses part of the poetry of the senses, ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac
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