To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn’t.
Author: Pierre De Beaumarchais
The physical union of the sexes only intensifies man’s sense of solitude.
Author: Nicolas Berdyaev
Such ever was love’s way; to rise, it stoops.
Author: Robert Browning
Of course, it’s possible to love a human being — if you don’t know them too well.
Author: Charles Bukowski
You have to be very fond of men to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.
Author: Marguerite Duras
The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Author: Shirley Hazzard
A woman is more responsive to a man’s forgetfulness than to his attentions.
Author: Jules Janin
The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.
Author: Margo Kaufman
One of the advantages of living alone is that you don’t have to wake up in the arms of a loved one.
Author: Anna Marion Smith
Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love.
Author: Terence (Second Century B.C.)
I like men to behave like men — strong and childish.
Author: Francoise Sagan
If I had had a pistol I would have shot him — either that or fallen at his feet. There is no middle way when one loves.
Author: Lady Laura Troubridge
A bad woman always has something she regards as a curse — a real bit of goodness hidden away somewhere.
Author: Lady Laura Troubridge
There is . . . no woman so naked as one you can see to be naked under her clothes.
Author: Michael Frayn
There are two things I have always loved madly . . . women and celibacy.
Author: Nicolas De Chamfort
I had to give up masochism — I was enjoying it too much.
Author: Mel Calman
It’s usually the most wounded among us who inflict pain on others.
Author: Patti Davis
Th’ fav’rite pastime iv civilized man is croolty to other civilized man.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
Success has ruin’d many a man.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
We never do anything well ’till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Author: William Hazlitt
A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.
Author: Juan Ramon Jimenez
We spend our time envying people who we wouldn’t like to be.
Author: Jean Rostand
I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he’s the wrong one for me.
Author: Linda Barnes
A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss.
Author: Abraham Cowley
Once made equal to a man, woman becomes his superior.
Author: Socrates (Fifth Century B.C.)
The penalty for getting the woman you want is that you must keep her.
Author: Lionel Strachey
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Author: August Strindberg
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
Author: August Strindberg
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Author: Anne Swetchine