| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms." | Thomas Hardy | The Hand of Ethelberta |  |
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by an by a cloud takes all away! | William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
| Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved-to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Beautiful and Damned | |
| "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | |
| "But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken." | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband | |
| "Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance." | Oscar Wilde | A Woman of No Importance | |
| . . . people who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people--amongst whom your life is passed--that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire--for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? | George Eliot | Adam Bede | |
| "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | |
