Jane Birkin Quotes

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

Of course I feel blessed that I have a wife that is 25 years younger.

I'm married now, but I fell in love with my wife because she was talented. Talent - it's the big one.

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?

Believe in love at first sight.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

Why do we fall in love so easy, even when it's not right?

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.

I think if you love someone, you think that they're out of your league, of course. I go for the full package though, you know, like not everything is based on looks. I go for talent and funny.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

is love at first sight truly possible?

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

You may think you're in love when the passions of sex get hold of you, but if you didn't love the man before, you won't love him after. Like him, maybe, but not love him.

Eloiseis getting married as well.” “Eloise?” Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?” “No,” Francesca said, quickly flipping to the third sheet of her mother‟s letter. “It‟s someone she‟s never met.” “Well, I imagine she‟s met him now,” Michael said in a dry voice.

Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.