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Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 116 (1609)In context
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1600)In context
And a voice less loud, thro’ its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each!
Robert Browning1812–1889Meeting at Night (1845)In context
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,⁠—
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894In the Bleak Midwinter (1872)In context
- Charity
- Christmas
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you⁠—
It takes life to love Life.
Edgar Lee Masters1868–1950Lucinda Matlock (1915)In context
- Life & Death
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it’s always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967One Perfect Rose (1923)In context
- Clever Jabs
Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by PoloniusIn context
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIIn context
But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Pride
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIn context
- Character
“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IVIn context
- Marriage
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Men
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change, without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XXIVIn context
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter VIn context
My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.
Charles Dickens1812–1870Bleak House (1853), Chapter XLIIn context
- Marriage