Top Libertine Quotes

He was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience, always eager to set off into the unknown t...

In all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are bet...

Libertine Definition

(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.

(n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.

(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.

(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.

(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.

. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupi...