Encounters Quote by Arthur Desmond

Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.

— Nuala O'Faolain

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual…

— H. L. Mencken

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the…

— James A. Baldwin

The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

— Honore de Balzac

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

— Joseph Cook

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

— William Shakespeare

“The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend clubs her…

— Germaine Greer

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

— Honore de Balzac

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson