Quotes on Lechery

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.