Quotes About Passion

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will...in a dull man.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Every man kills the things that he loves. Some with a look, some with flattery, the coward with a kiss.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.