“Wer sich peitschen läßt,verdient, gepeitscht zu werden.Who lets itself whip, earned to be whipped.”

“I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs”

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

“Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.”

“Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?”

“Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...”

“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to whom they are more appropriate, cruel goddess of love and of beauty”