Top 46 Jove Quotes
#1. Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
Sappho
#3. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Homer
#4. Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
John Dryden
#5. So desperate was Kugel for things to turn out for the best, proclaimed Professor Jove, that he couldn't stop worrying about the worst. Hope, said Professor Jove, was Solomon Kugel's greatest failing.
Shalom Auslander
#6. I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
#8. By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
Janet Flanner
#9. All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on the solid earth, but hovers over the heads of men to make them stumble or to ensnare them.
Homer
#10. Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.
William Shakespeare
#11. It struck me there might be a reason why Helena Justina whipped along at such a cracking pace: she did not want to be stuck in the wilderness with my corpse. I thanked Jove for her ruthless good sense. I did not want my corpse to be stuck with her in any case.
Lindsey Davis
#12. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
Thomas Gray
#13. Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?
P.G. Wodehouse
#14. The consolations of space are nameless things.
It was after the neurosis of winter. It was
In the genius of summer that they blew up
The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds.
It took all day to quieten the sky
And then to refill its emptiness again ...
Wallace Stevens
#15. And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.
Ovid
#16. First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
#17. The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.
Edmund Waller
#18. In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.
John Adams
#19. Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.
Homer
#21. I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise
Of mortal men conceal'd their deities;
One laid aside his thunder, one his rod
Ovid
#23. No, not Jove
Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
Robert Herrick
#24. Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Homer
#25. Pleasant it is for the Little Tin Gods
When great Jove nods;
But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakes
In missing the hour when great Jove wakes.
Rudyard Kipling
#26. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
Homer
#28. I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy!
Sheri Cobb South
#29. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#30. Bertie, old man," said young Bingo earnestly, "for the last two weeks I've been comforting the sick to such an extent that, if I had a brother and you brought him to me on a sick-bed at this moment, by Jove, old man, I'd heave a brick at him.
P.G. Wodehouse
#31. Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#32. 'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Homer
#33. By Jove, Poirot,' I exclaimed, 'did you see that young goddess?' Poirot
Agatha Christie
#34. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare
#35. Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves
As strong as thunder is in Jove's.
Abraham Cowley
#36. To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.
Homer
#37. Their woes gone by, and both to heaven upflown, To bow for gratitude before Jove's throne.
John Keats
#38. Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
William Shakespeare
#39. Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't
Liane Moriarty
#40. Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.
Charles Caleb Colton
#41. By Jove ... ' he said to himself: 'It's true! What a jolly little mistress she'd make!
Ford Madox Ford
#42. The earth is rocking, the skies are riven
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
Robert Williams Buchanan
#43. heights th' immortal Gods, Jove
Homer
#44. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me. And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
Melville Herman
#45. Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
Homer
#46. The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
John Milton
