Edwin Arnold Quotes

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

I just think love is stupid.

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.

The lover as baby is a less troubling idea than the baby as lover.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

One should always be in love.