“There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 23
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“No oath can be too binding for a lover.”
Fragment 848.
Phædra
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ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BCRelated quotes
“Jupiter laughs at the false oaths of lovers.”
Periuria ridet amantum<br/>Iuppiter.
Tibullus (-50–-19 BC) poet and writer (0054-0019)
Periuria ridet amantum
Iuppiter.
Bk. 3, no. 6, line 49.
Misattributed
“This too can be endured, though it is hard:
A lover in the end has his reward.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Premio al ben servire
Pur viene al fin, se ben tarda a venire.
Canto XXXI, stanza 3 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison
Vol. 4, letter 17.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
“The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mr. Boarham to Helen
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”
Asinaria, Act I, scene 3.
Asinaria (The One With the Asses)