How to Kill Love Without Love, Life is Cold as Ice. Click Here for More Romantic Tips Love is an adventure“Ambition is so splendid! It must be so glorious to be a man and go crashing through obstacles, straight up to the thing one is after. I’m afraid I don’t care for people who are superior to success. I like marriage by capture!” Edith Wharton You can be taken for grantedAnna looked up and saw that Darrow’s eyes were on the newspaper. He seemed calm and secure, almost indifferent to her presence. “Will it become a matter of course to him so soon?” she wondered with a twinge of jealousy. She sat motionless, her eyes fixed on him, trying to make him feel the attraction of her gaze as she felt his. It surprised and shamed her to detect a new element in her love for him: a sort of suspicious tyrannical tenderness that seemed to deprive it of all serenity. Finally he looked up, his smile enveloped her, and she felt herself his in every fibre, his so completely and inseparably that she saw the vanity of imagining any other fate for herself. Edith Wharton How to kill loveCriticism does a pretty good job of it“They would sit opposite one another silently, criticizing with a drastic pitiless criticism. This in itself showed where they had arrived; for faith has to be shaken before there is room for criticism, and if love survives the criticism of lovers, it is altogether different from the love they began with. Lovers can be almost anything they choose to each other and still be in love, but they cannot be critical. That is blighting.” John Cowper Powys Hard times have been known to kill love“Love flies out of the window when poverty enters the door.” Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza Jealousy might be the most effective wayFor where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy Doth call himself Affection’s sentinel; Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny, And in a peaceful hour doth cry ‘Kill, kill!’ Distempering gentle Love in his desire, As air and water do abate the fire. William Shakespeare Love without mutual enthusiasm might not work well…“Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed: And therefore, setting all this chat aside, Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented That you shall be my wife; your dowry ‘greed on; And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you. Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn; For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty, Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well, Thou must be married to no man but me; For I am he am born to tame you Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates. Here comes your father: never make denial; I must and will have Katharina to my wife.” William Shakespeare Motives are not always well thought out.“Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent; For women are as roses, whose fair flower Being once display’d, doth fall that very hour.” William Shakespeare How not to kill love? Review the romance tips page. Return to Home Page love quotes
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