Famous quotes containing the word passion:
“The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.”
—Roman Polanski (b. 1933)
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)