Quotes About Emotion

I don't need to strike you. Words will do just as well.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

I showed you your face in the mirror. It was not only the face of one who loves, but the face of one whose love is returned.

Watch carefully. In forty formidable bosoms we are about to create a climacteric of emotion. In one short speech—or maybe two—I propose to steer your women through excitement, superiority, contempt and anger: we shall have a little drama; just, awful and poetic, spread with uncials and full, as the poet said, of fruit and seriosity. Will they thank me, I wonder?

In Sevigny, there was something so deep and so dangerous that it could barely be felt. But there was no music. And there was no laughter.

Mime doesn't always mean comedy, my dear; far from it.

If he is tired, and they put a foot wrong, he will choose the one unmentionable response and make it. He did it last night.

The alternative is English force: reprisals and raids and counter-raids and broken promises, as you say. Of course you must try to secure this alliance. You might have achieved it in the last reign but for Henry. It was he who fostered the cult of the honest emotion, and you're still paying for the mistake.

Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

Yet no woman had ever so stirred his blood; she had only to look or speak to make the very bones shake in his body.

I love you.' 'Bravely said – though I had to screw it out of you like a cork out of a bottle. Why should that phrase be so difficult? I – personal pronoun, subjective case; L – O – V – E, love, verb, active, meaning – Well, on Mr Squeers's principle, go to bed and work it out.'  

Let the galled jade wince'—

feeling suddenly embarrassed and looking, in consequence, defiant.

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Women and elephants never forget.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.