Quotes about "Love & Romance"

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. ”

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ”

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. ”

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. ”

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. ”

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ”

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ”

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ”

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ”

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. ”