#Desire Quotes

“This liberty is all that I request.”

“...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again.”

“Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!”

“wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.”

“If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.”

“Would the cook were o' my mind!”

“Give me to drink mandragora.”

“Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated”

“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.”

“I'll look to like; if looking, liking move.”

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”

“Women are angels, wooing:Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.”

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!”

“We will have rings and things and fine array”

“But she makes hungry Where she most satisfies.”

“O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.”

“Love will not be spurred to what it loathes”

“Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.”

“All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.”

“This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.”

“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”

“Wishers were ever fools.”

“I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.The imaginary relish is so sweetThat it enchants my sense.”

“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”

“We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.”

“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?”