1 There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Desirability, Peace, 0 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland Copy
2 I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Desirability, Identity, 0 Jennifer Love Hewitt Actress Copy
3 A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn’t hurt anybody. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Louis C. K., Desirability, Fame, Harmless, 0 Louis C. K. Comedian · USA Copy
4 I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Geoffrey Beene, Commercialism, Desirability, Fashion, 0 Geoffrey Beene Fashion designer · USA Copy
5 Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Walter Lippmann, Desirability, Imagination, Possibility, 0 Walter Lippmann Journalist · USA Copy
6 I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Giorgio Armani, Desirability, Luxury, Style, 0 Giorgio Armani Copy
7 I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Greta Salpeter, Desirability, Experience, Manifestation, 0 Greta Salpeter Copy
8 The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Alice Waters, Availability, Desirability, Scarcity, 0 Alice Waters Chef · USA Copy
9 Truth – An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Ambrose Bierce, Appearance, Desirability, Truth, 0 Ambrose Bierce Journalist · USA Copy
10 Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. Read explanation Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Abraham Lincoln, Desirability, Labor, Property, 0 Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President · USA Copy
11 Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. Author, January 4, 2024January 6, 2025, Damien Hirst, Desirability, Images, Immortality, 0 Damien Hirst Artist · England Copy
12 Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, John Stuart Mill, Desirability, Freedom, Pleasure, 0 John Stuart Mill Philosopher and economist · United Kingdom Copy
13 Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Desirability, Illusion, Present, 0 Jon Kabat-Zinn Professor · USA Copy
14 It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Arthur Balfour, Desirability, Necessity, Truth, 0 Arthur Balfour Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom · Scotland Copy
15 Unfortunately, it’s possible to be able to do something extremely well that nobody ever wants done. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Ashleigh Brilliant, Desirability, Relevance, Skill, 0 Ashleigh Brilliant Author · England Copy
16 The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable Read explanation Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Seneca the Younger, Desirability, Perception, Wealth, 0 Seneca the Younger Philosopher · Spain Copy
17 Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Aristotle, Desirability, Intrinsic, Priority, 0 Aristotle Philosopher · Greece Copy
18 All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Maggie Osborne, Beauty, Desirability, Longing, 0 Maggie Osborne Author Copy
19 For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. Read explanation Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Desirability, Value, Wisdom, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
20 The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. Author, January 2, 2024January 1, 2025, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Desirability, Dignity, Leisure, 0 Marcus Tullius Cicero Lawyer and statesman · Italy Copy
21 I think it’s very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Newman, Desirability, Individualism, 0 Paul Newman Actor · USA Copy
22 When there’s a lot of it around, you never want it very much. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Peg Bracken, Abundance, Desirability, Scarcity, 0 Peg Bracken Author Copy
23 After all, it’s woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable. Author, December 24, 2023January 1, 2025, Candace Bushnell, Desirability, Gender, Power, 0 Candace Bushnell Novelist · USA Copy
24 A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Chilon of Sparta, Aging, Desirability, Youth, 0 Chilon of Sparta Politician · Greece Copy
25 You don’t want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can’t stop using. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Roelof Botha, Desirability, Engagement, Preference, 0 Roelof Botha Venture capitalist · South Africa Copy
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The problem for me is that reading is, I won’t say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act. Joseph Epstein Essayist
