Jove Quotes

24 quotes by 17 authors

• By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer
• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew… — Joseph Conrad
• By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer… — Janet Flanner
• When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail… — James Joyce
• Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and… — Gustave Flaubert
• Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered… — James Joyce
• The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. — Edmund Waller
• To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. — Homer
• 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth. — Homer
• We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well… — Joseph Conrad
• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! — Thomas Gray
• Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers… — Sappho
• Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.… — Charles Caleb Colton
• The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. — Robert Williams Buchanan
• By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments… — William Shakespeare
• The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. — John Milton
• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good… — Hesiod
• Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still! — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Jove Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 24 Jove Quotes as follows:

• 4 Jove Quotes by Joseph Conrad
• 3 Jove Quotes by Homer
• 2 Jove Quotes by James Joyce
• 1 Jove Quote by Janet Flanner
• 1 Jove Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 Jove Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Jove Quote by Edmund Waller
• 1 Jove Quote by Thomas Gray
• 1 Jove Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Jove Quote by Sappho
• 1 Jove Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Jove Quote by Robert Williams Buchanan
• 1 Jove Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Jove Quote by John Milton
• 1 Jove Quote by Hesiod
• 1 Jove Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Jove Quote by Herman Melville