Richard B. Garnett Quotes & Sayings

#1. Life without Love is as a flower without fragrance.

#2. Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

#3. Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

#4. Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.

#5. It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

#6. In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

#7. If Pity come as Pity, bid her stay; But if in guise of Love, chase her away.

#8. Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

#9. Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.

#10. Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

#11. Love is wont to visit Man in the company of Desire; but Woman by himself.

#12. Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

#13. Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

#14. The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.

#15. Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

#16. As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

#17. Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.

Richard B. Garnett Quotes