“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Lysander, Act I, scene i.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
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William Shakespeare 699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“The course of truth never yet ran smooth.”
"That what Everybody Says must be True".
Sketches from Life (1846)
Context: When a story has gone the grand circuit, and travels back to us uncontradicted, we may reasonably begin to relax in our belief of it. If nobody questions it, it is manifestly a fiction; if it passes current, it is almost sure to be a counterfeit. The course of truth never yet ran smooth.
Uno amore...a lieto fin pervenuto, in una novelletta assai piccola intendo di raccontarvi.
Fifth Day, Fourth Story
The Decameron (c. 1350)
“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”
Source: An Equal Music
“Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger's seat?”
from the 1984 song "This Charming Man"
From songs
Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho