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William Shakespeare3 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599Now my love is thawed,
Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire
Bears no impression of the thing it was. — William Shakespeare · 1616Giacomo Casanova1 quote
Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love. — Giacomo Casanova · 1838Gustave Flaubert1 quote
Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language. — Gustave Flaubert · 1856Joel Barish1 quote
Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? — Joel Barish · 2004John Donne1 quote
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631Marcel Proust1 quote
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. — Marcel Proust · 1896Mark Twain1 quote
Familiarity breeds contempt—and children. — Mark Twain · 1894Oscar Wilde1 quote
There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890