The Quotable Lover: Words of Wisdom from Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Robert Burns, and More

by Turkington, Carol

• ISBN13: 9780071360647
• ISBN10: 0071360646
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-22
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional

Summary

From famous literary figures such as William Shakespeare and Lord Byron to Woody Allen and Richard Nixon, The Quotable Lover is the ideal companion for romantics, scholars, poetry lovers, and fans of the eternal spirit of love. A passionate and moving tribute to past, present, and future lovers alike from some of the most interesting and poetic minds in history.

Author Biography

Carol A. Turkington has written or edited nearly 40 books, including her previous Quotable book, The Quotable Woman. Reflections for Working Women and Reflections for Working Parents are two of her other books available from McGraw-Hill. She lives in Morgantown, PA.

Table of Contents

Absence	1	(2)
Advice	3	(1)
Affairs	3	(3)
Affection	6	(1)
Age	7	(3)
Alcohol	10	(1)
Alone	11	(2)
Anniversary	13	(1)
Anxiety	13	(1)
Appearance	13	(1)
Applause	14	(1)
Arguments	15	(1)
Attraction	15	(2)
Bachelors	17	(1)
Beauty	18	(3)
Betrayal	21	(2)
Bisexuality	23	(1)
Blind Love	24	(1)
Breaking Up	24	(2)
Brothers	26	(1)
Cars	27	(1)
Changeable Love	28	(1)
Charm	29	(1)
Chastity	29	(2)
Christianity	31	(1)
Communication	31	(1)
Compatibility	32	(1)
Contentment	32	(1)
Cooking	33	(1)
Courtship	33	(3)
Dancing	36	(1)
Death	37	(3)
Delicacy	40	(1)
Desire	40	(2)
Dieting	42	(1)
Divorce	42	(2)
Dreams	44	(1)
Emotions	44	(1)
End of Love	45	(1)
Enduring Love	46	(3)
Engagement	49	(2)
Estrangement	51	(1)
Falling in Love	51	(2)
Faithfulness	53	(3)
Famous Lovers	56	(7)
Farewell	63	(1)
Fashion	63	(1)
Fear	64	(1)
Feelings	65	(1)
First Love	66	(1)
Flowers	67	(1)
Food	68	(1)
Foolish Love	69	(1)
Forbidden Love	70	(1)
Forgiveness	71	(1)
Freedom	72	(1)
Free Love	73	(1)
Friends	73	(2)
Giving	75	(1)
God	76	(1)
Gossip	76	(1)
Great Love	77	(1)
Hair	78	(1)
Happiness	79	(1)
Hard to Get	79	(1)
Heart	80	(2)
Heartbreak	82	(5)
Heart vs. Head	87	(2)
Heaven	89	(1)
Homosexuality	90	(1)
Honesty	91	(1)
Honeymoon	91	(1)
Husband	92	(2)
Imagination	94	(1)
Independence	95	(2)
Individuality	97	(1)
Infidelity	97	(3)
In-Laws	100	(1)
Inspiration	100	(1)
Jealousy	101	(2)
Kisses	103	(4)
Lesbians	107	(1)
Life	107	(2)
Living Together	109	(1)
Longing	109	(1)
Loneliness	110	(1)
Love	111	(17)
Love Affairs	128	(1)
Love Around the World	128	(2)
Love at First Sight	130	(1)
Love Letters	130	(1)
Lovers	131	(2)
Love vs. Hate	133	(1)
Love vs. Like	134	(1)
Loving	135	(2)
Marriage	137	(7)
Mature Love	144	(2)
May-December Romance	146	(1)
Memories of Love	146	(3)
Men	149	(1)
Money	150	(1)
Music	151	(1)
Night	152	(1)
On the Rebound...	153	(1)
Painful Love	154	(1)
Parting	155	(3)
Passion	158	(3)
Personal Ads	161	(1)
Pleasure	161	(1)
Poets	162	(2)
Poverty	164	(1)
Problems	164	(1)
Promises	165	(1)
Proposals	166	(1)
Regret	167	(1)
Relationships	168	(2)
Religion	170	(1)
Romance	170	(2)
Sacrifice	172	(1)
Scandal	172	(1)
Seasons	173	(1)
Second Marriages	174	(1)
Secrets	175	(1)
Seduction	175	(1)
Self-Esteem	176	(1)
Sensuality	176	(1)
Sex	177	(3)
Sexuality	180	(1)
Sisters	181	(1)
Sleep	182	(1)
Smile	183	(1)
Support	183	(1)
Transformation	183	(1)
True Love	184	(1)
Trust	184	(1)
Unrequited Love	185	(1)
Wine	186	(1)
Wives	187	(1)
Women	188	(1)
Women vs. Men	188	(3)
World	191	(1)
Young Love	191	(2)
Index	193