Herman Melville Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Friendship, Sight

• The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Vanity, Names

  Herman Melville (2006). “Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

• In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Cities, Settling

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre or The Ambiguities”, p.277, Herman Melville

• contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Sight, Firsts

  Herman Melville (1847). “Omoo, a narrative of adventures in the south seas”, p.77

• The friendship of fine-hearted, generous boys, nurtured amid the romance-engendering comforts and elegancies of life, sometimes transcends the bounds of mere boyishness, and revels for a while in the empyrean of a love which only comes short, by one degree, of the sweetest sentiment entertained between the sexes.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Friends, Sex

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.276, Herman Melville

• That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Marriage, Wine

• Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Rose, Bird

  Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.34, Northwestern University Press

• Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Bridges, Rainbow

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2384, Delphi Classics

• Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Hate, Fall

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.56

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