PASSION

Related Subjects: Anger, Desire, Hatred, Impulse, Kissing, Love, Lust, Mistress, Revenge

1. A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.—AMIEL
   

2. In her first passion woman loves her lover,
   In all the others, all she loves is love.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.—THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore
   

4. We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.—HEGEL
   

5. The passions are the only orators that always persuade; they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
   

6. Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!—WILLIAM MCFEE, Casuals of the Sea
   

7. All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

8. Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.—WILLIAM PENN, Fruits of Solitude
   

9. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail,
   Reason the card, but passion is the gale.—POPE, Essay on Man
   

10. And hence one master-passion in the breast,
    Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.—POPE, Essay on Man
    

11. The ruling passion, be it what it will,
    The ruling passion conquers reason still.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

12. He that shews a passion, tells his enemy where he may hit him.—Proverb
    

13. Passionate people lay up no malice.—Proverb
    

14. He that overcomes his passions overcomes his greatest enemies.—Proverb
    

15. 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 hearts,
    As I do thee.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

16. Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
    I'll rant as well as thou.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

17. This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

18. All great passion makes us dumb, and the highest happiness as well as the highest grief seizes us too violently to be expressed by our words.—SIR RICHARD STEELE
    

19. No more subtle master under heaven
    Than is the maiden passion for a maid,
    Not only to keep down the base in man
    But teach high thought, and amiable words,
    And courtliness, and the desire of fame
    And love of truth, and all that makes a man.—TENNYSON, Idylls of the King
    

20. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
    Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.—TENNYSON, Locksley Hall