Dumb Quote by Walter Raleigh

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The…

— Walter Raleigh

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

— Andrew Michael Ramsay

Passions are the gales of life.

— Alexander Pope

Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

— Livy

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

— Mikhail Lermontov

Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

— Thomas Hobbes

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

— Roger L'Estrange

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The passions often engender their contraries.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

— Denis Diderot