Quotes for the Venus Signs
“But you see there’s no fun in winning a thing unless you play for it.”
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
“And to his heart he inwardly did pray / For power to speak; but still the ruddy tide / Stifled his voice, and pulsed resolve away - / Fevered his high conceit of such a bride, / Yet brought him to the meekness of a child: / Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
“The worst was this: my love was my decay.”
Sonnet 80 by William Shakespeare
“…the rustle of a woman’s dress, the sound of her voice, or the transit of her form across the field of his vision will enkindle his soul with a flame that blinds his eyes.”
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
“For [people], out of fear or shame, conceal the flames of passion within their fragile breasts, and a hidden love is far more potent than one which is worn on the sleeve.”
The Decameron (Prologue) by Giovanni Boccaccio
“Darrow acquiesced, in the tone of the man who perforce yields to so lovely an unreasonableness.”
The Reef by Edith Wharton
“The joy of passion, that dread mystery / Which not to know is not to live at all, / And yet to know is to be held in death’s most deadly thrall.”
“My restless spirit never could endure / To brood so long upon one luxury, / Unless it did, though fearfully, espy / A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.”
“If there’s delight in love, ‘tis when I see / That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
The Way of the World by William Congreve
“O, learn to read what silent love hath writ. / To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit.”
Sonnet 23 by William Shakespeare
“’You’re right enough if you admit that I am in love with something in my own head, and no thing-in-itself outside it at all.’”
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
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