Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

-Austen,Jane
  Pride and Prejudice, ch.22.

The most urgent tasks in Britain, once war is over, are, on the one hand, the making of a common attack on the giant evils of Want, Disease,Ignorance and Squalor, and on the other hand, the re-equipping of British industry.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Full Employment in a Free Society.

O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 34:8^10.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:10^11.

I want to be alone.

-Garbo, Greta pseudonym of  Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
   The media have famously attributed these words to Garbo although she always denied she said them. In the film Grand Hotel (1932) Grusinskaya (playedby Garbo) says'I want to be left alone'.

Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.

-Harris,Joel Chandler
  Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.2, ch.19.

Je ne veux pas tomber, non, je veux dispara|"tre. I do not want to fall; I want to disappear.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Ruy Blas, act1, sc.1.

   Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right† I want it that way.

-Iverson, Allen
c.1914  Note to the copyist of  The Fourth of  July.

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him, down the Lachlan, years ago. He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just 'on spec', addressed as follows: 'Clancy, of the Overflow'. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar) 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'

-Paterson, Banjo (Andrew Barton)
  'Clancy of the Overflow', first published in the Bulletin, collected in The Man from Snowy River and OtherVerses (1895).

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.293^8.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.19.

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  MrsWarren. MrsWarren's Profession, act 2.

Therearetwothingstoaimat inlife: first, toget what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

-Smith, Logan Pearsall
Afterthoughts,'Life and Human Nature'.

Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Georgics,1.145^6 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).

Mine is one of the jobs that, if you want it, you will never get itöand if you're seen to want it you will certainly never get it.

-Weatherill, (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill, Baron
  In The House Magazine, Jan.

   A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.What more can one want?

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.6.