| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Our Derby Sweepstakes |  |
| It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions. | Charles Dickens | Hard Times | |
| . . . she better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | |
| . . . the task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women. | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | |
| "A marriage without love is dishonour." | George Meredith | Sandra Belloni | |
| "What is love but a disease?" | Andrew Lang | The Disentanglers | |
| What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea? | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | |
| When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything tends to widen the breach. | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Run to Earth | |
| "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 | |
| Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. | Louisa May Alcott | Little Men | |
