| Author |
Quotes |
| George Chapman | For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. |
| Helen Hunt Jackson | Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? |
| Honore de Balzac | All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. |
| Honore de Balzac | Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |
| Isaac Watts | But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Isaac Watts, |
| Johann Kaspar Lavater | He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. |
| Jonathan Swift | Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. |
| Margery Allingham | 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. |
| Mozart | Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. |
| Orson Welles | I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. |
| Ovid | Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. |
| Patricia Moyes | I simple cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. |
| Paul Acquasanta | if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us. |
| Paul Acquasanta | In the black of my midnight you're the star for me. |
| Paul Eldridge | Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. |
| Robert Browning | Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. |
| Robert Lowth | Where passion leads or prudence points the way. |
| Roland Barthes | What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. |
| Thomas Dekker | We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. |
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