E. F. Benson Quotes

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble. Because I'm all over that dog, all the time.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.