Venus Quotes

• There are so many stars shining in the sky, so many beautiful things winking at you, but when Venus comes out, all the others are waned, they are pushed to the background.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Stars, Science

  Play "Galileo Galilei" (2001), as quoted in "Venus Transit Tue June 5 - Get Ready", www.dailykos.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Venus favors the bold.

  Ovid

  Favors, Flirtation, Boldness

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.422, University of Oklahoma Press

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• Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.225, Perfection Learning

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• That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Morning, Nice, Night

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Calms appear, when Storms are past;
  Love will have his Hour at last:
  Nature is my kindly Care;
  Mars destroys, and I repair;
  Take me, take me, while you may,
  Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

  John Dryden

  Love, Past, Storm

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

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• She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as you.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Romantic, Beautiful, Sweet

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• Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

  Tibullus

  Aids, Stout, Hearted

  Tibullus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Tibullus (Illustrated)”, p.230, Delphi Classics

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• All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and
  shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish
  smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple
  further out and the joy of distances and the roar of
  falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't
  come out of the sea for all of us.

  John Cheever

  Distance, Fall, Sea

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Complete Novels”

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• Venus can see at night without eyes.

  Christina Stead

  Eye, Night

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.39, The Miegunyah Press

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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• Venus, thy eternal sway
  All the race of men obey.
  Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
  He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

  Euripides

  Life, Men, Race

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• I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

  John Keats

  Stars, Tonight, Praying

  John Keats (1889). “Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

  Apuleius

  Behaviour, Behavior, Ifs

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• Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Yield, Seduction, Caress

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• You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Ocean, Garden

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• A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Real, Apples

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• Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

  Ovid

  And Love, Kind, Young

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• It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

  Jean Racine

  Veins, Obsession, Prey

  'Phédre' (1677) act 1, sc. 3

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• I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.

  Tori Amos

  Use, Innocence, Demeanor

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• Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
  Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
  Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
  And fruitful lands- for all of living things
  Through thee alone are evermore conceived,
  Through thee are risen to visit the great sun-
  Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
  Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
  For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
  For thee waters of the unvexed deep
  Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
  Glow with diffused radiance for thee!

  Lucretius

  Mother, Stars, Flower

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.181, Delphi Classics

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• Venus knows country matters: country knows Venus:
  For Love, Dione's boy, was born on the farm.

  Allen Tate

  Country, Boys, Matter

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

  Robert Greene

  Blood, Sin, Court

  Robert Greene (1963). “Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press

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• Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.

  John Ralston Saul

  Reality, Desire, Disease

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

  Janet Flanner

  Beautiful, Loss, Moon

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• Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Sea, Age, Culture

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