Love Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Aphrodite is about love and beauty. Being loving. Spreading beauty. Good friends. Good times. Good deeds.”

— Rick Riordan

Aphrodite is the goddess of love, and you're the goddess of my heart.

— Anonymous

“I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness…

— Lawrence Durrell

When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries…

— Bettany Hughes

“I believe in Aphrodite, I believe in insane thinkers, I believe in roaring free-spirits, I believe in full-throated poetry, I believe in feverish sex…

— Laura Gentile

“An aphrodisiac will disappear, delusional, like permanence or wealth - a shimmering, as if love were a ghost - and yet my passion for…

— Lauren Lipton

“The idea that Aphrodite was simply a representation of carnal lust is the product of much later representations of her. In fact, the representation…

— Charles River Editors

Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift…

— Bettany Hughes

“...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...”

— Sappho

“He loved the curves on her body, her soft skin and pouty lower lip, her deep soulful eyes. He adored her voice; sometimes sultry,…

— Melody Lee

“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never…

— Thornton Wilder

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love…

— Homer