Love Quote by Francis Bacon

“Penelope did not understand how this [study] group was ever formed. It consisted only of her mortal enemies. However, these were things you seemed…

— Rebecca Harrington

“Penelope was in favor of new experiences, as long as they did not upset the digestion”

— Maryrose Wood

“Plato and Aristotle…survived to become the twin pillars of philosophic and scientific thinking in the Western world, supporting the massive edifice of Christianity. Plato's…

— Jack Holland

“Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.”

— Carlos Fuentes

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

“She had eloped in a trance, in haste, her docility a mask, a thousand hers revolting within herself and toward him. Yet coexisting with…

— Edna O'Brien

“He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, traits, all of which he accepted as absurd…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the…

— Evelyn Waugh

It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases,…

— Virginia Woolf

“She felt the familiar old constriction in her chest - that combination of desire and urgency. She needed more hours - many more hours…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

“This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelope think about how much she…

— Maryrose Wood