Passion Quotes - page 2

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. View quote
Henry James
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around. View quote
Boris Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. View quote
William Penn
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Passion gives me moments of wholeness. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. View quote
Robert Browning
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. (Oscar Wilde)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. View quote
William Blake
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. View quote
Karl Kraus
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. View quote
Denis Diderot
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. (Henry Adams)
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigour and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. View quote
Ralph Cudworth