| Favorite Trivia – LOVE
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| “Love: A little sighing, a little crying, a little dying, and a great deal of lying.”
Evan Esar – Esar’s Comic Dictionary |
| “I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first sight, but I believe in taking a second look.”
Vincent |
| “Regarding love: You have to accept a little to get a lot.”
Patty Martino Alspaugh |
| “Time is Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice, But for those who Love Time is not.” Henry Van Dyke – Motto for the Sun Dial in the Garden of Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| “Love decreases when it ceases to increase.”
Chateaubriand |
| “It is a happy choice if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
Somerset Maugham – Truth, Beauty and Goodness |
| “Love is the wild card of existence.”
Rita Mae Brown |
| “My life is a grave When he [Faust] is not near, And all the world Is bitter and drear.” [Gretchen] Goethe – Faust, trans. Alice Rafael |
| “I’ve had enough of your baseness, and I haven’t killed myself only because I didn’t give myself life and I still love somebody because I love myself. . .” To The Enemies – Vladimir Holan |
| “The day I asked myself, ‘Has the time come for me to tell Henry the truth?’ I received in the evening a voluminous letter in which he says he cannot fall in love with anyone else, that I am perfection and have immunized him! So again I kept my secret. It would be cruel to abandon him when he needs me, when I am the only one who takes care of him, the only one.” [October 7, 1942]
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947, edited by Paul Herron |
| “I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports… When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.”
Excerpt from one of Gustave Flaubert’s letters to Louise Colet |
| “‘These glasses,’ he said, pointing at a set of goblets, ‘were made by Count Thierry for his mistress in 1826.’… The count had the glass matched to his lover’s eyes and ordered more than one thousand of them in the year they were together. Only these six still exist. All the others were smashed.’
‘Why?’ ‘The count was so jealous he didn’t want anyone to drink from a glass touched by his lover’s lips. Each goblet she drank from was destroyed after she used it.'” M.J. Rose – A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light (ed. by Eleanor Brown) |
| “I’m in a terrible state: I’m falling more and more in love with my wife. How annoying: for the last ten years I’ve kept on turning away from anyone close to me. . . a woman is just a woman, after all. But now I allow myself to be humiliated by even the slightest twinge of jealousy. She’s sweet and lovely.” [January 3, 1925]
Mikhail Bulgakov: Diaries and Selected Letters |
| “Jealousy is a terrible thing. It resembles love, only it is precisely love’s contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph. Love is the forgetfulness of self; jealously is the most passionate form of egotism, the glorification of a despotic, exacting, and vain ego, which can neither forget nor subordinate itself.”
Henri-Frederic Amiel – Amiel’s Journal |
| “She paused on the threshold; the doorway surrounded her like a frame. . . She sent him flowers; she made him a tapestry chair; she gave him a cigar case, an inkstand, countless small objects of daily use, so that his every action should evoke her memory.”
Gustave Flaubert – Sentimental Education |
| “When a man is in love with one woman in a family it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.”
Thackery |
| “A man can hide all things, excepting twain: That he is drunk, and that he is in love.” Antiphanes |
| “The hottest love has the coldest end.”
Socrates |
| “A woman can do nothing wrong, as long as a man is in love with her, and nothing right after he ceases to be.”
Helen Rowland |
| “Every time a woman gives a man a piece of her mind she loses a part of his heart.”
Helen Rowland |
| “Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.”
Vanbrugh |