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| Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. | George Eliot | Adam Bede |  |
| "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." | Oscar Wilde | The Sphinx Without a Secret | |
| They say that faint heart never won fair lady; and it is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts! | Anthony Trollope | The Warden | |
| "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd." | William Congreve | The Mourning Bride | |
| There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | |
| "To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us." | Baroness Emmuska Orczy | I Will Repay | |
| "The fickleness of women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me." | George Bernard Shaw | The Philanderer | |
| "You might have married him not because you loved him, but because you didn't love anybody else. When one is young, one marries out of mere curiosity, just to see what it's like." | George Bernard Shaw | The Philanderer | |
| To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear. | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
| To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and delights. | Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie | |
