Firm Quote by William Shakespeare

Aphorisms have never seduced anybody, but they have fooled some into considering themselves worldly-wise.

— Mason Cooley

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

“The hopeful fancy of a man toward a woman was nothing more than a reason to intercept his lust to prove better than someone…

— Justin Donner

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What seduces never seems to be where it is thought.

— Gustavo Cerati

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

— Philip Sidney

“[G]enerosity... is the mistress and queen that gives lustre to every virtue, as it is not hard to prove. Where could one find a…

— Chrétien de Troyes

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

— William Shakespeare

It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who is absorbed…

— Yohji Yamamoto

The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Those lovers scorn whom thatlove doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

— Anonymous