Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine. . . There is a vast difference between [that] reputation. . . and the charge which he is the object, which is a serious, very serious crime or sex crime. This is something very different.
But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.
I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
I'd describe myself as a sexual libertarian - but I'm not a libertine. "To each his own" is my motto.
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.
The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
