George Etherege Quotes

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards.

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Great loves too must be endured.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.