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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“So beautiful and fortunate
You're the one who hates to love
But he's the one who loves to hate.”
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
Love For Tender
Song lyrics, Get Happy!! (1980)
“Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.”
Russell Conwell (1843–1925) American academic administrator
Acres of Diamonds (1915)
“All else is Fortune's in this mortal state;
But Virtue soars beyond her love and hate.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Che dona e tolle ogn'altro ben Fortuna;
Sol in virtù non ha possanza alcuna.
Canto III, stanza 37 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
Source: http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=157&cat=4 On Hearing of Love
Collected Poems (1992)
“Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Context: Though fortune scowl, though prudence interfere,
One thing is certain: Love will triumph here!
Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule,—
The world's great masters, when you 're out of school,—
Learn the brief moral of our evening's play
Man has his will,—but woman has her way!