Quote

Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Goethe
goethe
johann wolfgang von goethe
joh. wolfg. von goethe
j. w. von goethe
Wife
Splendid
Tresses
Within
Sole
Adornment
Women
Adam
Snare
Firsts
Lovely
Frees
First
Soon
Snares
Succeed
Succeeds
Youth
Lure
Lilith
Hair
Beware
Therewith

More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image
That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The people rate strength before everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The aim of living is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Gray is the color of all theory
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe