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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), Ch. 20
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IVIn context
- Marriage
“All romances end at marriage.”
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter XLIIn context
- Marriage
Their lives were ruined, he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling which had no necessary connection with affinities that alone render a lifelong comradeship tolerable.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Jude the Obscure (1895), Part First: At Marygreen, Chapter XIIn context
- Marriage
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891), Phase the First: The Maiden, Chapter VIn context
- Time
Freud’s prescription for personal happiness as consisting of work and love must be taken with the proviso that the work has to be loved, and the love has to be worked at.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Pieces of Eight (1982)
- Work
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953)
All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953)
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIII: A Flood of SunshineIn context
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XV: Hester and PearlIn context
- Marriage
What we did had a consecration of its own.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIIIn context
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XXIVIn context
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988“Jubal Harshaw” in the first edition (1961)
- Happiness
I’ve been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1950)
- Women
“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961The Sun Also Rises (1926), Book III, Chapter 19In context