90 Cupid Quotes

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Famous Cupid Quotes

Cupid "the little greatest god." — Robert Southey

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. — William Shakespeare

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. - William Shakespeare

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare

Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. — Rick Riordan

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound. — William Shakespeare

Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot. — Milton Berle

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow. — Michael Bassey

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. — William Shakespeare

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye. — William Shakespeare

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid

The star-crossed lovers - Suzanne Collins

The star-crossed lovers — Suzanne Collins

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. — William Shakespeare

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod

A pair of star-crossed lovers. — William Shakespeare

Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids! It's so cute I'm going to cry! — Rick Riordan

Short Cupid Quotes

  • Love cannot live where there is no trust. — Edith Hamilton
  • But love is blind and lovers cannot see — William Shakespeare
  • Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. — Ovid
  • Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum. — Philip Sidney
  • Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe — George Michael
  • Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain. — John Dryden
  • I love myself, I no longer need Cupid... — Rapsody
  • Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais
  • Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled — Ellen Schreiber
  • When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. — Ovid

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Love Cupid Quotes

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. — William Shakespeare

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. — Yip Harburg

Cupid is anything but cute. As for handing our hearts, he’s more likely to rip them out. (Julian) But he can make people fall in love. (Selena) No. What he offers is an illusion. No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed? — John James Audubon

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. — William Shakespeare

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. — Socrates

It wasn‟t even desire. It was far more than that. It was love. Love. With a capital L and swirly script and hearts and flowers and whatever else the angels— and yes, all those annoying little cupids—wished to use for embellishment. — Julia Quinn

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

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. — William Shakespeare

Cupidity Quotes

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. — George Burns

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace — Haile Selassie

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. — Thomas Browne

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!' — Clement Clarke Moore

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. — William Shakespeare

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. — Heinrich Heine

War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base. — C. E. M. Joad

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? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stupid cupid you're a real mean guy, I'd like to pick your wings so you can't fly, I am in love and it's a crying shame, and I know that you're the one to blame, hey, hey set me free, stupid cupid, stop picking on me. — Mandy Moore

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More Cupid Quotes

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death. — Charles De Gaulle

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!' — Leigh Hunt

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. — Rick Riordan

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

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