Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast,
Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won.
I will now court her in the conqueror's style;
"Come, see, and overcome."
And can eternity belong to me,
Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?
My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.
When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
The heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.