It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.Francis Bacon
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.Anton Chekhov
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.Anton Chekhov
I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.Anton Chekhov
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.Jane Austen