And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.

Thomas Hardy · Gabriel Oak's first, refused proposal to Bathsheba Everdene in chapter 4.

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You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Albert Einstein · From a 1940 draft letter to his friend the physicist Philipp Frank; the shared "Love is a better teacher than duty" is a shortening, and the bracketed gloss is the editor's.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Attributed to Oscar Wilde · Recorded by Harold Mellor, a friend who travelled with Wilde in 1898 to 1900, and printed only in 1949 in the Marquess of Queensberry's Oscar Wilde and the Black Douglas; Quote Investigator finds it plausible but resting on one man's memory half a century on.

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“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”

“You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.”

“I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

We Value Your Opinion Comments

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.

You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty—at least for me.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.