Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image ““For those ashamed of him Cupid reserves the bitterest passions.”” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Cupid had struck his heart to the core but had forgotten to put even a mere scratch on his beloved's.” — Jettie Necole Copy Share Image
“For one struck down by Cupid’s bow Life becomes burdensome, isn’t that so?” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Cupid's bloody bow is strung with a million hearts, wisdom bought at a terrible price, and love laid to rest on the river of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride.” — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
“Last night in his cups he had broken down and wept, full of regrets for things undone and words unsaid.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“his avowal of follies and excess seemed uttered rather in the spirit of wounded pride, than in that of contrition.” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image