E. F. Benson Quotes

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

I'm all about making my girl feel like she's the only woman in the world. Whether it's telling her how special she is or showing her with gifts and romantic dates, I want to make her happy.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

It's a misconception that love can only foster between two people of opposite sex. Love is a bond.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.