| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms." | Thomas Hardy | The Hand of Ethelberta |  |
| "You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money." | George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman |  |
| When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything tends to widen the breach. | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Run to Earth |  |
| To Arthur love is a state, not a process; an atmosphere, not a study; an assurance, not a hope; a fact, not an ideal. | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | The True Story of Guenever |  |
| 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 |  |
| . . . 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 |  |