Various - Great Sayings

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Library PDF: 9780715642566 If you would be loved, love and be loveable. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,Poor Richards Almanack Women love us for our faults. OSCAR WILDE,The Picture of Dorian Gray Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in. THOMAS HARDY,Jude the Obscure If thou rememberest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into Thou hast not loved. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,As You Like It Its not the seven deadly virtues that make a man a good husband, but the three hundred pleasing amiabilities. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Attrib. She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed; and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male. JAMES JOYCE,Dubliners Men are given to the trick of having a passing fancy for somebody else in the midst of permanent love, which reasserts itself afterwards just as before. THOMAS HARDY,A Pair of Blue Eyes Love stretches hands from shore to shore: Love is, and shall not perish! LEWIS CARROLL,Life and Letters Marriage yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. THOMAS HARDY,A Pair of Blue Eyes Love stretches hands from shore to shore: Love is, and shall not perish! LEWIS CARROLL,Life and Letters Marriage yes, it is the supreme felicity of life.

I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes. MARK TWAIN,Letters That illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back. F.

SCOTT FITZGERALD,The Beautiful and Damned Idleness which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,Virginibus Puerisque Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony. JANE AUSTEN,Letters, 13 March 1817 Talk not of love, it gives me pain, For love has been my foe; He bound me in an iron chain, And plunged me deep in woe. ROBERT BURNS, Love in the Guise of Friendship To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day, and the young people so merry one with another; and strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. SAMUEL PEPYS,The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Christmas Day 1665 Love is stronger than Cruelty, stronger than Death, but perishes under Meanness; Pity may take its place, but Pity is not Love. CHARLOTE BRONT, Letter to W.S.

Williams, 1 May 1848 Only in gentle opposition like a well drilled spouse. SIR WALTER SCOTT,The Journal of Sir Walter Scott Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman. OSCAR WILDE,A Woman of No Importance Lord Shelburne used to say that perfect society was wives without husbands and husbands without wives. BENJAMIN DISRAELI,Disraelis Reminiscences I dont love anyone except my family. JAMES JOYCE, Attrib. CHARLES DICKENS,The Pickwick Papers Love frequently dies of time alone much more frequently of displacement. THOMAS HARDY,A Pair of Blue Eyes Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality. W. B. B.

YEATS,John Sherman It is very hard sometimes to know how intensely we are loved, and of what value our presence is to those who love us. ANTHONY TROLLOPE,Last Chronicle of Barset Love cant give any man new gifts. It can only heighten the gifts he was born with. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,You Can Never Tell The true love story commences at the alter, when there lies before the married pair a most beautiful contest of wisdom and generosity, and a life-long struggle towards the unattainable ideal. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, El Dorado