Famous quotes containing the words excessive love, excessive and/or love:
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Lear. How old art thou?
Kent. Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor so old to dote on her for anything.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)