Romantic Love

In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.

Why love if losing hurts so much we love to know that we are not alone.

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

 

On ne Badine pas avec l’Amour .

Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

The other day we had a long discourse with[Lady Orkney] about love; and she told us asaying . . . which I thought excellent, that inmen, desire begets love ; and in women, love begetsdesire .

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

We must resemble each other a little in order to understand each other, but we must be a little different to love each other.

[ Of Ronald Reagan :] For seven and a half years I have worked alongside him and I am proud to be his partner. We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

 

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque.

Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the gray, sober against the fire.

 

I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

LOVE IS WHAT HAPPENS TO A MAN AND WOMAN WHO DON’T KNOW EACH OTHER.

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

A man’s kiss is his signature.

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.