| "First love is a kind of vaccination which
saves a man from catching the complaint a second time."
~ Honore de Balzac |
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"I have no regrets. I will never regret loving
someone because the feeling of love for five minutes
is greater than an eternity of hurt." ~ Kurt
Langner |
| "Love is like
quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and
it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away." ~
Dorothy Parker |
| "Life
has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at
each other but in looking outward together in the same
direction. " ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| "Self-love seems so often unrequited"
~ Antony Powell, novelist |
|
"No single expression denotes love. It's
so complex it requires combinations of expressions.
These create an identifiable look. You see something
like it sometimes in the eyes of slaughterhouse steers."
~ L. M. Boyd |
| "When
all is said and done, the weather and love are the two
elements about which one can never be sure."
~ Alice Hoffman |
|
"I have no regrets. I will never regret loving
someone because the feeling of love for five minutes
is greater than an eternity of hurt." ~ Kurt
Langner |
| "When your
heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters
anymore. It is the end of happiness and the beginning
of peace." ~ George Bernard Shaw |
| "Love clamors
far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate
than an open one." ~ Marie Corelli, 'The Master
Christian', 1900 |
| "There's
nothing like unrequited love to take all the taste out
of a peanut butter sandwich." ~ Charles Shultz,
'Peanuts' |
|
"In a separation it is the one who is not
really in love who says the more tender things."
~ Marcel Proust, "Remembrance of Things Past",
1922-1931 |
| "Take me
or leave me, or, as is the usual order of things, both."
~ Dorothy Parker, "A good Novel, and a Great Story"
The New Yorker, 1928 |
|
"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the
bad girls never have time." ~ Tallulah Bankhead |
| "I love you, and because I love
you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you
the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
~ Pietro Aretino |
|
"There are times not to flirt. When you're
sick. When you're with children. When you're on the
witness stand." ~ Joyce Jillson |
| "If all the girls who attended
the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a
bit surprised." ~ Dorothy Parker |
| "Love is a fire.
But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn
down your house, you can never tell." ~ Joan
Crawford |
| "Heaven
has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury,
like a woman scorned" ~ William Congreve, 'The
Mourning Bride', 1697 |
|
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one
equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."
~ Ninon de L'Enclos |
| "What
do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No5, of course" ~
Marilyn Monroe, 1952 |
|
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels."
~ Groucho Marx |
| "I
feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having
you here." ~ Stephen Bishop |
| "A successful marriage
requires falling in love many times, always with the
same person." ~ Germaine Greer |
| "The trouble with some women is
that they get all excited about nothing - and then they
marry him." ~ Cher |
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"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore
and you sleep alone" ~ Anthony Burgess |
| "I was nauseous and tingly all
over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."
~ Woody Allen |
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Once the number of quotations justifies it, I shall
install a search function, for name, topic or phrase,
and I'm interested in any other suggestions.