Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

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

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

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are read more

Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?
Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,
They do not point on me.

Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action read more

Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.