Cupid Quotes

• Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.

  Rick Riordan

  Play, Hades, Laughed

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Relationship

  1595 Helena. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.234-5.

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• Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow.

  Michael Bassey

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Dying

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• Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse.

  Yip Harburg

  Valentines Day, Stupid, Kissing

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• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Arrows, Traps

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare”, p.128

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• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

  William Shakespeare

  Wings, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lovers

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.56, Classic Books Company

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• The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Invisible, Wounds

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

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• Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot.

  Milton Berle

  Valentine, Remember, Shots

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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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• I love myself, I no longer need Cupid...

  Rapsody

  Needs, I Love Myself, Love Myself

  "Song: Complexion (A Zulu Love)". March 15, 2015.

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• If you become a Nun, dear,
  The bishop Love will be;
  The Cupids every one, dear!
  Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

  Leigh Hunt

  Life, Bishops, Thee

  Leigh Hunt (1923). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”

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• Cupid "the little greatest god."

  Robert Southey

  Life, Littles, God Life

  Robert Southey (1851). “Southey's Common-place book”, p.462

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• Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me.

  Mandy Moore

  Stupid, Real, Fall

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• But love is blind and lovers cannot see

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Purple

  William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.36, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Mad, Poor

  "The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions".

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• Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Soul, Pilots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.90

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• Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Fire, Arrows, Use

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.436, e-artnow

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• There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Sound, Silent

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled

  Ellen Schreiber

  Arrows

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• Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Falling In Love, Rip

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• Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

  Socrates

  Men, Rose, Empires

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

  Ovid

  Temptation, Useless, Bows

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Eye, Wings

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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