Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. Shakespeare.

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. Sir T. Overbury.

Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul. 40 Tupper.

Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution. Goldsmith.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. Luther.

Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers. Sc. Pr.

Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet. Pr.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty 45 follies that themselves commit. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round 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. Emerson.

Love is deemed the tenderest (zärteste) of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. Platen.