“Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?”
Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
As quoted, Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ππ (1623)
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 1.
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Irish playwright and librettist 1733–1812Related quotes
“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: Proverbs of Hell
“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Essays (1625)
“Wilt thou fear that, and fear not my desire?”
Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads
"Anactoria", line 8.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 37.
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IX, 40
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IX
Context: Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which thou desirest, or not being pained at anything, rather than pray that any of these things should not happen or happen?
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
“Tempt not the stars, young man, thou canst not play
With the severity of fate.”
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
