Stendhal

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

"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

"In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives."

"I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events."

"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

"It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover."

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

"The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man."