Quotes
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:
So I did sit and eat.
Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
Love in animals, has not for its only object animals of the same species, but extends itself farther, and comprehends almost every sensible and thinking being. A dog naturally loves a man above his own species, and very commonly meets with a return of affection.
A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.
The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness.
But then the need of being loved, the strongest need ... in poor Maggie's nature, began to wrestle with her pride and soon threw it.
