One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706
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What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822