Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
|
O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!
Then with passion would I shake the world,
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,
Which scorns a modern invocation.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv)
|
Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
They do not point on me.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at V, ii)
|
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel
force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: Locksley Hall (st. 25)
|
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller
Quotes , Source: On Divine Poems (l. 7)
|
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
- Isaac Watts,
Isaac Watts
Quotes , Source: Divine Songs for Children--Against Quarreling and Fighting
|
Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It
merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at
best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as
often as possible.
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Quotes , Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
|
And beauty, for confiding youth,
Those shocks of passion can prepare
That kill the bloom before its time,
And blanch, without the owner's crime,
The most resplendent hair.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots
|
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Quotes
|
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Quotes
|
|
|
|
I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
Patricia Moyes
Quotes
|
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham
Quotes
|
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D H Lawrence
Quotes
|
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca
Quotes
|
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
C S Lewis
Quotes
|
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
William Shakespeare
Quotes
|
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
Ovid
Quotes
|
|
|
|
|
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac
Quotes
|
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley
Quotes
|
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Chang Ch'ao
Quotes
|