Amorous Quotes

Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

John Milton

Sweet, Pride, Delay

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.72

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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Andre Maurois

Women, Infidelity, Born

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What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Alexander Pope

Spring, Causes, Trivial Things

'The Rape of the Lock' (1714) canto 1, l. 1

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I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Honore de Balzac

Love, Romantic, Thinking Of You

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He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

Virginia Woolf

Summer, Horse, Heart

Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.8, Lettere Animate Editore

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Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

Marie Corelli

Summer, Sunshine, Two

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Matthew Prior

Love, Anger, Heart

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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

William Shakespeare

Love, Glasses, Nymphs

'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

Will Cuppy

Spring, Passion, Men

Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Morning, Being In Love, Caring

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Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

John Wilmot

Broken, Lovers, Fainting

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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

Lord Byron

Chastity, Chaste, Pure

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Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Samuel Johnson

Heart, Dull, Companion

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...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain de Botton

Love, May, Ends

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But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

William Shakespeare

Dog, Glasses, Breathing

'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Andrew Marvell

Sports, Running, Morning

c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.

Paul Eluard

Dream, Errors, Imagination

Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.

Doris Day

Sex, Adventure, Fiction

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Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

Cassandra Clare

Flower, Dwelling, Hats

Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.

Patti Stanger

Feelings, Easy, Feels

"Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger's Weight-Loss Secrets". Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com.

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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

Roland Barthes

Love You, Mourning, Facts

Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

Cassandra Clare

Wish, Female, Monkeys

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

Moliere

Love, Heart, Other Worlds

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Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

Michael Bassey

Girl, Children, Men

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The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom.

Aeschylus

Rain, Heaven, Demeter

Aeschylus (1926). “Aeschylus”

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