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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.” George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer
“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life...” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“the affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's bean-stalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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