Marina

“I think one is always in love with something or other; the error—and I confess it is not easy for spirits cased in flesh and blood to avoid it—consists in seeking in a mortal image the likeness of what is, perhaps, eternal.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He would praise her beyond the moon and stars, and that so sweetly and ravishingly, as I persuade myself he was more in love with his own curious forming fancy than her face; and truth is, many become passionate lovers only to win praise to their wits.”
― Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

“Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie,
Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie”
― Molière, Le Misanthrope

“A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night