Valentine’s Day: 10 quotes about love from great authors
By Danny Heitman, Contributor From The Christian Science Monitor
“Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,” William Faulkner wrote. “Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” Faulkner’s words remind us that love and literature have always gone hand in hand. And so, in honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 10 quotes from celebrated writers on the joys and trials of amour, all taken courtesy of “Love: A Book of Quotations,” published by Dover Press.
1. Jane Austen
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
2. Henry Ward Beecher
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and more disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
3. Honoré de Balzac
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
5. Sebastien Chamfort
“The loves of some people are but the result of good suppers.”
6. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.”
7. Samuel Johnson
“A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
8. Dorothy Parker
“Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.”
9. Petrarch
“Love accomplishes all things.”
10. Sydney Smith
“To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
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