Cupid Quotes - Page 2

• In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

  Horace Walpole

  Queens, Hands, Drawing

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• love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

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

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• We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Valentines Day, Eye, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

  George Michael

  Stupid, Eye, Missing

  "Song: "Fastlove" ("Older")". 1996.

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• The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.

  James Harrington

  Eye, Fire, Mind

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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• Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.

  Propertius

  Love, Doe, Naked

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• In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Children, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Love's heralds should be thoughts,
  Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
  Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
  Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
  And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wind, Wings

  William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.158, Cambridge University Press

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• Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

  Ovid

  Broken, Leisure, Bows

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Mad, Female

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.363

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• Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Surprise, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.127, Harvard University Press

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• It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment.

  Julia Quinn

  Flower, Heart, Angel

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

  John Dryden

  Children, Love Is, Broken

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.294, Univ of California Press

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

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• Soon the purple dark must bruise
  Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
  And the little Cupid lose
  Eyes and ears and chin and nose

  Donald Justice

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf

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• Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

  Philip Sidney

  Sports, Warrior, Flirting

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• Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain.

  Bryan Procter

  Pain, Pride, Giving

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• Love cannot live where there is no trust.

  Edith Hamilton

  Trust, Bad Relationship, Mythology

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Splits, Way, Sides

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• When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

  Ovid

  Passion, Muse, Mute

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• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dignity, Midsummer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 226

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• True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Passion, Littles, Influence

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• Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

  Philip Massinger

  Art, Sight, Blind

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