Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Jewelry, I'm telling you. It's a thing. And love. And maybe danger.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and often its awakener.

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

One must not trifle with love.

Love cannot burn constantly.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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!

Who loves, raves.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.