Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it. "

" Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. "

" For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour. "

" Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. "

" Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. "

" Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. "

" A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. "

" Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. "

" Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons. "

" To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. "

" Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. "

" Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. "

" This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. "

" What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. "

" There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? "

" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. "

" All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. "

" I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. "

" One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. "

" I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. "

" Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. "

" I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. "

" Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. "

" Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. "

" Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. "

" Adversity is the first path to truth. "

" Smiles form the channels of a future tear. "

" For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. "

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" They never fail who die in a great cause. "