John Ford (dramatist): Quotes about love

John Ford (dramatist) was dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

John Ford (dramatist): 66 quotes1 like

“Love is dead; let lovers' eyes
Locked in endless dreams
Th' extreme of all extremes
Ope no more, for now Love dies.”

John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart

Act IV, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)

“Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens
Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel
It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.”

John Ford (dramatist)

Act III, sc. iii.
The Lover's Melancholy (1628)

“I have spent
Many a silent night in sighs and groans,
Ran over all my thoughts, despised my fate,
Reasoned against the reasons of my love,
Done all that smoothed-cheek Virtue could advise,
But found all bootless: 'tis my destiny
That you must either love, or I must die.”

John Ford (dramatist)

Act I, sc. iii.
Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629-33?)