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Passion Quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
- A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.
- Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain…
- The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small…
- Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily…
- Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others…
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe