Quotes About Devotion

Success is man's god.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. -The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else." "Oh! my dear Love, I know. You want reality. So do I. What's between us will last for ever because it's founded on reality.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

With women, love always comes first.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.

I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.

There is too much talk about sex, too much attention is paid to it. I do not mean that anything about sex is wrong. That is nonsense. But sex cannot take the place of love, it goes with love but it cannot succeed by itself. To love means the words of the marriage service. For better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. That is what you take on if you love and wish to marry.

My whole belief in life was based on the fact that [she] loved me.

I loved her- I always loved her- no matter what she was-I wanted her safe- not shut up- a prisoner for life, eating her heart out. And we did keep her safe- for many years" Phillip Stark

O maid most dear, I am not here. I have no place, no part, No dwelling more by sea nor shore, But only in thy heart.

To dear Peter, most faithful of friends and dearest of companions, a dog in a thousand

A man in love is an awful sight.

She is in love—heart, soul, and body—and she is not of those who love lightly and often.

And let me tell you something, mademoiselle – in the course of my experience I have known five cases of wives murdered by devoted husbands, and twenty-two of husbands murdered by devoted wives. Les femmes, they obviously keep up appearances better.

Wives madly devoted to unsatisfactory and often what appeared quite unprepossessing husbands, wives contemptuous of, and bored by, apparently attractive and impeccable husbands.

pero en el amor era espantosamente unilateral. Porque ella sentía una pasión profunda y avasalladora por Amyas Crale, dio por sentado que él abrigaría los mismos sentimientos hacia ella. Dio por sentado que su enamoramiento sería eterno.

De pronto, con enorme asombro mío, el coronel me cogió la mano. —Ana —dijo con dulzura—, te quiero.

liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

She existed, one might say, only in him and for him." Miss Williams paused a minute and then said quietly: "That, I think, is the justification for what she eventually did.

Une qui aime et un qui se laisse aimer.

Thank you, mon ami, I should be delighted to do so. You include Hastings in your invitation, I hope? Japp grinned. What do you think? Where the master goes, there the dog follows...