Desire Quotes

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.”

“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,Even in the moment that we call them ours.”

“My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease,Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approveDesire is death, which physic did except.”

“Were kisses all the joys in bed,One woman would another wed.”

“Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.”

“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”

“Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest”

“There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.”

“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.”

“Beware of what you want-for you will get it.”

“O excellent! I love long life better than figs.”

“I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.”

“Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

“Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.”

“Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”

“A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)”

“Would I were in an alehouse in London.”

“Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.”

“O for a horse with wings!”

“Light and lust are deadly enemies.”

“Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.”

“It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!”

“Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!”

“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”