Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Arnold Matthew 1822-1888
‘Philomela'
Eternal Passion!
Eternal Pain!
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Death"
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath
so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth
to it.
Berenson Bernhard 1865-1919
Enemies could become the best companions.
Companionship is based on a common interest,and the greater the interest the closer the
companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
Burke Edmund 1729-1797
On the Sublime and Beautiful
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Parker Dorothy 1893-1955
‘Unfortunate Coincidence'
By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying -
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
Powell Anthony 1905-
The Acceptance World
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful.
Pushkin Alexander 1799-1837
Eugene Onegin
From early youth his dedication
Was to a single occupation ...
The science of the tender passion.
Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of 1647-1680
„Song"
Love a woman? You're an ass!
´Tis a most insipid passion
To choose out for your happiness
The silliest part of God's creation.
Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980
Being and Nothingness
Man is a useless passion.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Julius Caesar
Passion, I see, is catching.
Sterne Laurence 1713-1768
A Sentimental Journey
If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‘Locksley Hall'
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Pendennis
Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Frisbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.
Wesley John 1703-1791
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Zangwill Israel 1864-1926
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer
is no more capable of a „grand passion" than of a grand opera.