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Quotes About Emotion

Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.
~ William Butler Yeats
And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
~ William Butler Yeats
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
~ William Butler Yeats
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
~ William Butler Yeats
Who mocks at music mocks at love.
~ William Butler Yeats
Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
~ William Butler Yeats
When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.
~ William Butler Yeats
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
~ William Congreve
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
~ William Congreve
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
~ William Faulkner
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
~ William Graham Sumner
Talking of love is making it.
~ William Gurney Benham
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
~ William Hazlitt
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
~ William Peter Blatty
The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
~ William Shakespeare
Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.
~ William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
Love sees with the heart and not with mind.
~ William Shakespeare
Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
~ William Shakespeare
If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground
~ William Shakespeare
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
~ William Shakespeare
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
~ William Shakespeare