I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say, "I love you."
William Shakespeare · Henry wooing Katharine of France as a plain soldier with no gift for pretty speeches; the courtship seals a peace treaty.
William Shakespeare · Henry wooing Katharine of France as a plain soldier with no gift for pretty speeches; the courtship seals a peace treaty.
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William Shakespeare · Hamlet at Ophelia's grave, grappling with her brother Laertes, the one moment he says outright what he felt.

William Shakespeare · Julia, doubting Proteus because he has said so little; her maid Lucetta answers at once that the deepest love is often the quietest.

William Shakespeare · The closing couplet of the sonnet that begins in disgrace and envy and ends richer than a king at the thought of the beloved.
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W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.
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