Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas.
Quotes about appendages (7 Quotes)
It is no exaggeration to say that among all living creatures, only man, because of his prehensile appendages, is capable of rape in the full meaning of this term that is, sexual possession of the female against her will.
... and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy ... hold on.
You've got to remember he's only a head, so now he's got these other appendages that he's enjoying a lot. Certain appendages more than others,
That sarcasm is mild compared to Morris' treatment of Nixon, who the authors say may have had an affair with a cocktail waitress. Well, I can't even imagine him with his own wife, let alone someone else, ... I'm going to now caress your little appendages.
You couldn't develop a virus that kills as many people as we, all humanity do, and destroys as many things as we do. We're just a pestilence with appendages.
Are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.