Larry McMurtry Quotes

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they're being honest with themselves. People don't talk about it very much, but it's very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

When someone is successful, there's always a feeling that they were lucky. Luck plays a part, sure, but to be successful, you must have iron discipline. You must have energy and hunger and desire and honesty.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

Sex is not the problem [Lust is]

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.