Cupid Quotes
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Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
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More Cupid Quotes
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid blind.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1, ln. 234.
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.
harold monro— "Children of Love", line 34, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 154.
Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.
carlos santana— On his first musical memory.[[2]]
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
william shakespeare— Helena, Act I, scene i.
Let Cupid smile and the fiend must flee; Hey and hither, my lad.
robert graves— "Love and Black Magic"
I'm twenty-seven, she's seventeen. "Blind Cupid, lame Cupid, both blind and lame Cupid said, Love this girl,"
nazim hikmet— From A Spring Piece Left In The Middle
When Venus said "Spell no for me," "N-O," Dan Cupid wrote with glee, And smiled at his success: "Ah, child," said Venus, laughing low, "We women do not spell it so, We spell it Y-E-S."0'0
— Carolyn Wells, The Spelling Lesson.
The bolt of Cupid fell: * * * upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-1596), Act II, scene 1, line 165.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
— Act I, scene 1, line 234.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
— Act III, scene 1, line 106.
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills; Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
— Act II, scene 5, line 4.
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid: Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act III, scene 1, line 182.
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act III, scene 2, line 440.
Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist, Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, * * * * * All things wait for and divine him, How shall I dare to malign him?
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Initial Dæmonic and Celestial Love, Part I.
No wonder Cupid is a murderous boy; A fiery archer making pain his joy. His dam, while fond of Mars, is Vulcan's wife, And thus 'twixt fire and sword divides her life.
— Meleager, in Greek Anthology.
Archers ever Have two strings to a bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
George Chapman— George Chapman, Bussy d'Ambois, Act II, scene 1.
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
— Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (1642), Part II, Section IX. Use of the phrase "Music of the Spheres" given by Bishop Martin Fotherby, Athconastrix, p. 315. (Ed. 1622). Said by Bishop John Wilkins, Discovery of a New World, I. 42. (Ed. 1694).
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
— Helena, scene i
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
— Hero, scene i
If we can do this, then Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods.
— Don Pedro, scene i
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
— William Shakespeare, Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), Act I, scene i.
