If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to …

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man…

- Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch