A Quote by Donna Tartt

One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

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Donna Tartt
American - Writer
Born: December 23, 1963

Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

Donna Tartt

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Virgil

The life of God - the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things - may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain, the patience, and labor, involved in the negative aspect of things.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Plautus

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.