Love Quote by Hannah Crafts

“Though I said that affection was the greatest enemy of love, I would never deny that it's a very good substitute. I'm not sure…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

— Maria Mitchell

“the wife who could be contented with but one half of her husband’s affections, had never deserved to engage the slightest share of them.”

— Walter Scott

“In general, my liege lady,’ he began, ‘Women desire to have dominion Over their husbands, and their lovers too; They want to have mastery…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection.”

— Jane Austen

“Let her not forget that she may be a man in the superiority of her mind, in decision of character, but that externally she…

— Therese Oniell

“Like many women, she would always find it easier to feel for a male (except, of course, her husband, against whom she bore innumerable,…

— Sigrid Nunez

“of every Perfection to endear him to a Wife’s Affections. — But, notwithstanding, I look on myself as the most unhappy of my Sex…

— Eliza Haywood

“I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no…

— Oakley Hall

“Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as…

— George Eliot

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according to Sir…

— Joseph Addison

“mayhap if I played at being the kind and gentle husband long enough, it would become true. Master Piero once told us that we…

— Jacqueline Carey