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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. -- Stendhal
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Good content is the stuff of love affairs. -- Tom Webster
The best love affairs are those we never had. -- Norman Lindsay
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. -- Mason Cooley
My love affairs are just between my office and gym. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. -- Honore de Balzac
I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs. -- Drew Barrymore
I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs. -- Claire Tomalin
Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted. -- Wilson Mizner
Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. -- Mason Cooley
All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair. -- Al McGuire
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. -- George Foreman
You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is. -- Joshua Bell
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment. -- Katharine Kerr
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own. -- Helen McCloy
children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids. -- Mary Borden
My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with. -- Peggy Lipton
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated. -- Ellen Glasgow
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. -- Marilyn Monroe
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. -- Emily Carr
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. -- Helen Rowland
How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! -- John Wain
If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. -- Frank Sinatra
I've never lost my cool. Even in love affairs. If you have Plan B and Plan C, you are all the time relaxed. -- Mikhail Prokhorov
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. -- Fran Lebowitz
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. -- H. L. Mencken
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days. -- Jesse Harris
So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other. -- Amit Kalantri
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself. -- Shirley MacLaine
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. -- George Foreman
Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies. -- Bauvard
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin. -- Ann Brashares
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. -- Rebecca West
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love. -- Melina Marchetta
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. -- Joseph Campbell
Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found husbands, wrote letters and Broadway plays. We made ourselves up everyday. -- Marita Golden
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime. -- Ethel Person
If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance? -- Simon Pegg
Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue. -- Cleve Jones
In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride. -- Anne Bronte
The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control. -- William Safire
The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels. -- Aleister Crowley
I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me. -- Robert Zemeckis
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. -- Pico Iyer
All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs. -- Lisa See
All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs." -- Lisa See
From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course. -- Manny Farber
I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. -- John Newcombe
I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair. -- Merle Haggard
The only love affair I have ever had was with music. -- Maurice Ravel
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw
I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European. -- Chita Rivera
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. -- Robert Frost
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. -- Alfred Kazin
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins. -- Debra Messing
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. -- Freddy Fender
I had a great love affair in high school and let myself have that love affair and tried to keep it to myself. -- Lisa Cholodenko
Save in the office and affairs of love. -- Claudio Sanchez
Love affairs are the real only education in life. -- Marlene Dietrich
The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful. -- Plato
Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. -- William Shakespeare
Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love. -- Nikki Sixx
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. -- Robertson Davies
Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money. -- Benjamin Franklin
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. -- Richard Bach
When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love. -- Baz Luhrmann
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. -- Andre Breton
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable." -- Andre Breton
It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force -- William Woodruff
A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life. -- Washington Irving
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. -- E. M. Forster
Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. -- Christopher Paolini
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! -- William Hazlitt
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present. -- E. W. Howe

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