Love quotes

I'm not very good at expressing love, especially the declaration of love. Sometimes I feel the words are too cheesy, other times too emotional. I guess as a new romantic writer, I should learn more about this art, of talking about love.

Here are a few from my books. How do you think I fare? Of course, you can see some of them are borrowed/inspired by Jane Austen's words.

She thought of his love with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than she had ever felt before; she remembered his gentlemanly ways, his warmth, and the caring manner that softened the stiff, reserved way in which he had expressed himself in times past.

She was thankful for the strength of his love, a love which defied his own will, persisting against his reason and perhaps even against his character. She was grateful to him, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still. - Bargain with the Devil

She and she alone made him feel complete. - Really Angelic

Mark Twain = Mr. Bennet?

I like Mark Twain's works. He had a sharp and dry humour, reminded me of Mr. Bennet. Here are some interesting quotes to share with you. He had something to say about Jane Austen too.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

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Diet quotes, not diet cokes

One of my popular posts is about love quotes. Does that mean people are search for saying about love all the time? I think it's time for another kind of quotes. The diet quotes.

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.  ~English Proverb

To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.  ~Proverb

My wife is a light eater.  As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.  ~Henny Youngman

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.  ~Mark Twain

Source: QuoteGarden

What is love?

I'm not very good at expressing love, especially the declaration of love. Sometimes I feel the words are too cheesy, other times too emotional. I guess as a new romantic writer, I should learn more about this art, of talking about love.

Here are a few from my books. How do you think I fare? Of course, you can see some of them are borrowed/inspired by Jane Austen's words.

She thought of his love with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than she had ever felt before; she remembered his gentlemanly ways, his warmth, and the caring manner that softened the stiff, reserved way in which he had expressed himself in times past.

She was thankful for the strength of his love, a love which defied his own will, persisting against his reason and perhaps even against his character. She was grateful to him, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still. - Bargain with the Devil

She and she alone made him feel complete. - Really Angelic

Tender loving care

Time for some love quotes. This time from movies...

Don't forget. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy...asking him to love her. --Notting Hill

If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just passes you by. -My Best friend's Wedding

Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there. -Good Will Hunting

Take love, multiply it by infinity and take it to the depths of forever.. and you still have only a glimpse of how I feel for you. - Meet Joe Black

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Mother Quotes

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms around the world. Here are a few quotes, lovely or what, to share with you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ~Spanish Proverb

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ~Aristotle

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. ~Beverly Jones

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries. ~T. DeWitt Talmage

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb

Quotes from Quote Garden.

Rainy quotes

We've torrential rain here. I'm in the mood for some rain quotes from thinkexist.com:

Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

What do you think about love?

Finally, what about love? I sometimes find ending of romance stories too cheesy. I think when you speak too much of it, you may jinx it. So I tend not to have many "I love you" in my stories.

There are many ways to talk about the L word. Here are a few:

Some of the greater things in life are unseen that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream... - Anonymous

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." - Dr Seuss

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. - Anonymous

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice but falling in love with you I had no control over. - UNKNOWN

What's your favourite quotes about love?

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What do you think about women?

Continuing the quotes theme this week, are men really from Mars and women really from Venus? Let's see what people say about women.

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. - Dick Martin

Men of superior creative aptitude are most dependent on their women. - Greg Evans

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. - Henry James

Have your say here.

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What do you think about marriage?

As a romance author, I of course believe in happily ever after. But I don't particularly believe in the marriage. To me, it's just a piece of paper.

Here are some interesting quotes about marriage:

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. - Anonymous

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. - Pauline Thomason

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. - Anonymous

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. - Samuel Johnson

Not that I agree with all of them but what do you think?

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Love Quotes from Movies

I love watching romance movies and sometimes those cheesy lines just make my heart melt. Here are a few quotes, though not necessarily from romance movies, to share with you.

Remember my sentimental friend, you will be judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved. -Wizard of Oz

Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there. -Good Will Hunting


A heart can be broken; but it keeps beating just the same. -Fried Green Tomatoes

Love won't obey our expectations—its mystery is pure and absolute. -Bridges of Madison County

Are you a success?

Some inspirational quotes for you to ponder:

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. (Abraham Lincoln)

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. (Emily Dickinson)

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. (Mike Ditka)

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