The horror of every agony is in its anticipation.
- Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.245
When you promise a lady you’re gonna marry her, shouldn’t you head for the altar even if ‘wild-cat’ she turns out to be?
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For, after all, let a woman be ever so good, – and you to me are all that is good, – a man should not allow his love to dominate his intellect.
Source: Anthony Trollope in The Way We Live Now, p.121
Ha , ha, ha.
Easier said than done.
Since times immemorial, men in love have had their intellect, should they possess any, completely clouded in the feverish passion of their amour.
Men will willingly yield their patrimony, their kingdom and, sometimes, even their lives in the foolish pursuit of love.
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