#Paradox Quotes

“Come, Lady, die to live.”

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.”

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

“She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.”

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

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.”

“When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.”

“Too nice, and yet too true!”

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?”

“And nothing is, but what is not.”

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

“Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.”

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.”

“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.”

“Love`s reason`s without reason”

“We go to Europe to be Americanized.”

“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”

“Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.”

“Love is a wonderful, terrible thing”

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

“We should hold day with the Antipodes,If you would walk in absence of the sun.”

“Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*”

“The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.”

“Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.”

“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?”

“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”

“The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.”

“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.”

“My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.”

“A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.”

“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

“Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.”

“When most I wink, then do my eyes best see”

“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”

“I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.”

“The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.”

“Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.”

“There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.”

“All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.”

“Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“We are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.”

“What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.”

“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”