Quotes about Cupid

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. Votes: 5

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Votes: 4

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad! Votes: 4

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. Votes: 4

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound. Votes: 4

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Votes: 4

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. Votes: 4

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. Votes: 4

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. Votes: 4

Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. Votes: 4

Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad. Votes: 4

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back. Votes: 4

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. Votes: 4

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. Votes: 4

Cupid "the little greatest god." Votes: 3

Cupid "the little greatest enemy." Votes: 3

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid. Votes: 3

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken Votes: 3

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana. Votes: 3

Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled Votes: 3

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum. Votes: 3

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. Votes: 3

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid. Votes: 3

Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. Votes: 3

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid. Votes: 3

You're pretty smug, Lord Ares, for a guy who runs from Cupid statues. Votes: 3

He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did Votes: 3

Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot. Votes: 3

To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole. Votes: 3

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power. Votes: 3

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. Votes: 3

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. Votes: 3

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. Votes: 3

The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress Votes: 3

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves. Votes: 3

I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above Votes: 3

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' Votes: 3

My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse, They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Votes: 3

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry. Votes: 3

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver. Votes: 3

Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose Votes: 3

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer? Votes: 3

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche) Votes: 3

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip. Votes: 3

Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip." Votes: 3

Think long and hard about how you proceed, Nico di Angelo. You cannot lie to Cupid. If you let your anger rule you... well, your fate will be even sadder then mine. Votes: 3

Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. Votes: 3

True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason. Votes: 3

Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time. Votes: 3

It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid. Votes: 3

My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love! Votes: 3

Old boy," said Grimes, "you're in love.""Nonsense!""Smitten?" said Grimes."No, no.""The tender passion?""No.""Cupid's jolly little darts?""No.""Spring fancies, love's young dream?""Nonsense!""Not even a quickening of the pulse?""No.""A sweet despair?""Certainly not.""A trembling hope?""No.""A frisson? a Je ne sais quoi?""Nothing of the sort.""Liar!" said Grimes." Votes: 3

Love cannot live where there is no trust. Votes: 2

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. Votes: 2

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow. Votes: 2

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. Votes: 2

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain. Votes: 2

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. Votes: 2

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry. Votes: 2

In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Votes: 2

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison. Votes: 2

it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there. Votes: 2

I love myself, I no longer need cupid. Votes: 0

Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe Votes: 0

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton Votes: 0