Famous quotes containing the word passion:
“In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I should prefer a Woman that is agreeable in my own Eye, and not deformed in that of the World, to a celebrated Beauty. If you marry one remarkably beautiful, you must have a violent Passion for her, or you have not the proper Taste of her Charms; and if you have such a Passion for her, it is odds but it will be imbittered [sic] with Fears and Jealousies.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“But hatred is a much more delightful passion & never cloys; it will make us all happy for the rest of our lives.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)