John Hoole: Quotes about love

John Hoole was British translator. Explore interesting quotes on love.

John Hoole: 48 quotes0 likes

“Ah! why so rare does cruel Love inspire
Two tender bosoms with a mutual fire?
Say, whence, perfidious, dost thou pleasure find
To sow dissension in the human mind?”

Book II, line 1
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“Love what we see can from our sight remove,
And things invisible are seen by Love.”

Book I, line 396
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.”

"Romulus and Hersilia", Act I, scene v
Translations, Dramas and Other Poems of Metastasio (1800)

“Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.”

Book XXIX, line 1
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)