Ardor Quotes

Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth. — Vladimir Nabokov

Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades. — Julia Quinn

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore

I remind you that I belong with great ardor to everyone and for this reason I am suffering immensely for all. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. — Friedrich Schiller

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins

God desires from us more fidelity to the little things that he places in our power than ardor for great things that do not depend upon us. — Francis De Sales

President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War. — Douglas Brinkley

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them — Walt Whitman

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H.L. Mencken

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. — Woodrow Wilson

You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor. — Malak El Halabi

For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence — Jennifer Silverwood

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. — Julia Ward Howe

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly. — Charles Darwin

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness ... I may. If you ask nicely. — Lisa Kleypas

ardor which is tapas; the name Indra — Roberto Calasso

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better. — Sextus Propertius

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. — Wallace Stevens

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. — Emily Bronte

Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow. — Atsushi

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. — Abigail Adams

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society. — Albion Woodbury Small

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? — Margaret Mitchell

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. — Ambrose Bierce

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor. — Willa Cather

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — William Goldman