Jove Quotes
24 quotes by 17 authors
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
— Homer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
— Homer
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'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
— Homer
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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
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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
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
— John Milton
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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
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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: