Kipfer Barbara Ann - Bartletts Book of Love Quotations

Copyright 1994 by Little, Brown and Company, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Hachette Book Group 237 Park Avenue New York, NY 10017 Visit our website at www.HachetteBookGroup.com First eBook Edition: October 2009 ISBN: 978-0-316-08497-0 From its first appearance in 1855 to its recently published sixteenth edition, Bartletts Familiar Quotations has set the standard for books of quotations. Now, for the first time, more than 900 of the most endearing, expressive, and impassioned sayings about loveromantic, passionate, matrimonial, familial, patriotic, spiritualhave been carefully selected from the more than 20,000 quotations in Bartletts. The unrivaled historical breadth and depth of its quotations has always been a Bartletts distinction, and Bartletts Book of Love Quotations continues this tradition.

The quotations in the chapter on romance, for example, explore the mysteries of attraction and the many ways in which men and women have expressed their interest in each other through the ages. Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, Dante, and Shakespeare are just a few of the contributors who celebrate this timeless and universal subject. Complementing and enhancing quotations from classical sources are remarks by some of the great wits and leading personalities of the twentieth century. The chapter on passion, for example, has provocative and stirring quotes that suggest why passion is both the most creative and the most destructive of the emotions. D. H.

Lawrence, W. H. Auden, Stephen Sondheim, Mick Jagger, and many others reveal the paths that passion can take. A well-known trademark of Bartletts has always been its fastidious attention to giving a clear and accurate source for each quote. Every quote in Bartletts Book of Love Quotations is identified by author, the work in which it appeared, and the date of its first appearance (when known). Also, the quotes within each chapter are alphabetized by author for easy reference.

From the sacred vows of matrimony to the longings of Shakespeares Juliet, from love is strong as death to the love that moves the sun and the other stars, this uniquely authoritative compendium brings us the words about love that makes the world go round. Illustrated with charming line drawings, this book says I love you in more ways than one. Barbara Ann Kipfer, who compiled the quotes in this volume, is a well-known lexicographer and author of 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, Rogets 21st Century Thesaurus, and nearly half a dozen other reference books.

Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead. Conrad Aiken Bread and Music [1914] Oh, the days dwindle down To a precious few And these few precious days Ill spend with you.

Maxwell Anderson Knickerbocker Holiday [1938]. September Song I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad. Anacreon Fragment 79 I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio [1919]. Tandy For in my mind, of all mankind I love but you alone. Anonymous The Nut-Brown Maid [15th century], refrain I was more true to Love than Love to me.

Anonymous From John Dowland, The First Book of Songs or Airs [1597] Frankie and Johnny were lovers, my gawd, how they could love, Swore to be true to each other, true as the stars above; He was her man, but he done her wrong. Anonymous Frankie and Johnny, st. 1 I wooed her in the wintertime And in the summer too; And the only, only thing I did that was wrong Was to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew. Anonymous The Foggy, Foggy Dew, st. 1 Love not me for comely grace, For my pleasing eye or face, Nor for any outward part, No, nor for a constant heart. Anonymous From John Wilbye, Second Set of Madrigals [1609] Sabina has a thousand charms To captivate my heart; Her lovely eyes are Cupids arms, And every look a dart: But when the beauteous idiot speaks, She cures me of my pain; Her tongue the servile fetters breaks And frees her slave again.

Anonymous From Amphion Anglicus [1700] Over the mountains and over the waves, Under the fountains and under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find out the way. Anonymous Love Will Find Out the Way, st. 1 Lamour, lamour fait tourner le monde [Its love, its love that makes the world go round]. Anonymous French song Quien bien te quiere te har llorar [Whoever really loves you will make you cry]. Anonymous Spanish proverb There is a lady sweet and kind, Was never face so pleased my mind; I did but see her passing by, And yet I love her till I die. 1 Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet [Tomorrow let him love who has never loved and tomorrow let him who has loved love]. 1 Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet [Tomorrow let him love who has never loved and tomorrow let him who has loved love].

Anonymous Latin Pervigilium Veneris [c. 350], refrain Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Arnold Dover Beach [1867], st. 3, 4 Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Matthew Arnold The Last Word [1867], st. 1 Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm. H. H.

Auden Lullaby [1940], st. 1 The greater the love, the more false to its object, Not to be born is the best for man; After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle, Break the embraces, dance while you can. Auden O Who Can Ever Gaze His Fill [1937] A ladys imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice [1813], ch. 6 I was in love with loving. Saint Augustine Confessions [397401], III, 1 Kiss till the cow comes home.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher The Scornful Lady [1616], act III, sc. i Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. Max Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson [1911], ch. 13 The sort of girl I liked to see Smiles down from her great height at me. John Betjeman The Olympic Girl [1954] Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour! Aphra Behn The Emperor of the Moon [1687], act I, sc. i How much better is thy love than wine! The Bible Old Testament Song of Solomon 4:10 Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

Old Testament Genesis 29:20 Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. Old Testament Song of Solomon 2:1012 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings. Old Testament Psalms 17:8 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. Old Testament Song of Solomon 8:6 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. Old Testament Song of Solomon 4:7 Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclind, Lawless, wingd, and unconfind, And breaks all chains from every mind.