Quotes from Ovid

Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

A woman is always buying something.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.

Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned by the wave.

A woman is a creature that's always shopping.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

Words that provoked the gods once from him fell. No beasts so fierce, said he, but I can quell; When lo! the earth a baleful Scorpion sent, To kill Latona was the dire intent. Orion saved her, though himself was slain, But did for that a spacious place obtain In heaven. To thee my life, said she, was dear, And for thy merit shine illustrious there.

Against the bold, daring is unsafe.

Whether they give or refuse women are glad to have been asked.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

In our play we reveal what kind of people we are

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

All things change; nothing perishes.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

And besides, we lovers fear everything