Quotes About Love

Aunque el vulgo no admite cambios bruscos en los sentimientos, no es menos cierto que dos amantes se separan a menudo más rápidamente de lo que tardan en unirse. Iba incubándose en madame de Bargeton y en Lucien un desencanto sobre ellos mismos cuya causa no era otra que París.

L'humilité de la courtisane amoureuse comporte des magnificences qui en remontrent aux anges.

L'amour a ses intuitions, comme le génie a les siennes.

Ce qui rend les amitiés indissolubles et double leur charme, est un sentiment qui manque à l'amour, la certitude.

Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.

There are fools that love without calculation and wise men that calculate while they love.

Alas! she is nothing now but a soul, a soul which beams upon her son and me; the body no longer exists; she has conquered suffering. Think what a spectacle for a father!

To be loved, dear, to be comprehended, is the greatest of all joys; I pray that you may taste it!

I, and I only, am to blame for all their sins; I spoiled them. To-day they are as eager for pleasure as they used to be for sugar-plums. When they were little girls I indulged them in every whim. They had a carriage of their own when they were fifteen. They have never been crossed. I am guilty, and not they—but I sinned through love.

Cada cual tiene su modo de amar; el mío, sin embargo, no hace mal a nadie; ¿por qué, entonces, la gente habrá de ocuparse de mí?

Love is a maker of false coin, continually changing copper pennies into gold-pieces, and sometimes turning its real gold into copper.

Marile pasiuni sunt rare ca ?i capodoperele. În afar? de o astfel de iubire, nu exist? decât aranjamentele, capricii trec?toare, demne de dispre?uit, ca tot ceea ce e mic.

If I have some delightful hours, it is when they are asleep and I am no longer needed to rock the one or soothe the other with stories. When I have them sleeping by my side, I say to myself, "Nothing can go wrong now." The fact is, my sweet, every mother spends her time, so soon as her children are out of her sight, in imagining dangers for them.

A thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism.

The elder boy's plain white collar, turned down over a closely fitting jacket, made a contrast with his brother's clothing, but the color and material were the same; the two brothers were otherwise dressed alike, and looked alike. No one could see them without feeling touched by the way in which Louis took care of Marie. There was an almost fatherly look in the older boy's eyes; and Marie, child though he was, seemed to be full of gratitude to Louis.

Nay, do not cry, papa," she said, kissing him.

To have children, to have a wife, to adore them — what is it but to have many hearts and bare them to a dagger?" he cried, springing up with the bound of a tiger and walking up and down the room. "To be a father is to give one's self over, bound hand and foot to sorrow.

É tão absurdo dizer que um homem não pode amar a mesma mulher toda a vida, quanto dizer que um violinista precisa de diversos violinos para tocar a mesma música.

Clarissa Harlowe

The true lover was suffering for the sins of the false. This inconsistency is unfortunately only to be expected so long as men do not know how many flowers are mown down in a young woman's soul by the first stroke of treachery.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. The soup warming before the fire must be watched. Am I the kind of woman, do you suppose, to shirk such cares? The humblest task may earn a rich harvest of affection. How pretty is a child's laugh when he finds the food to his liking!

E la donna è così felice e così bella nelle ore in cui è forte, che preferisce a tutti gli uomini quello che ha una forza enorme, a costo d'essere spezzata da lui.

And a good many bourgeois marriages have had their beginning to the sound of the band occupying the centre of this circular ballroom. If that roof could speak, what love-stories could it not tell!

Femeile pot iubi fara a fi fericite si pot fi fericite fara a iubi. A iubi si a fi fericita, a intruni aceste doua mari bucurii omenesti - asta seamana a Minune.