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I’d have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister⁠—anything that a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don’t realize it. You really are a part of me.
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book IV: The Pioneer Woman’s Story, Chapter IVIn context
- Friendship
Ain’t it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book IV: The Pioneer Woman’s Story, Chapter IVIn context
- Friendship
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.
Catullus84–54 BCLXX, lines 3–4
- Women
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred.
Catullus84–54 BCV, lines 7–9
Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
Catullus84–54 BCV, lines 1–6
- Life & Death
Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et Pensées, #158
- Motivation & Goals
Anthony Carthew (ITN): And, I suppose, in love?
Lady Diana Spencer: Of course!
Charles, Prince of Wales: Whatever ‘in love’ means.
Charles IIIborn 1948“Anthony Carthew” (Obituary), The Times, 22 January 2007.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles1930–2004Brother Ray: Ray Charles’ Own Story (1978), p. 239
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
- Friendship
Love means loving the unlovable⁠—or it is no virtue at all.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Heretics
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Michael Moon in Part II, ch. IV
- Marriage
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
- Women
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill1874–1965
- Marriage
She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.
Winston Churchill1874–1965My Early Life (1930), Ch. 1, on his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill
- Family