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“None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.”

Knows Love Looks Heart Eye Faces Rhetoric Glances Sigh Resorts Sweetest Eloquence Unspoken Mute Oratory Pantomime Full Hearts

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.”

Love Kind Past Darkness Clear Wall Solitude Prison Shining Forgotten Bars Tone Holiday Sunshine Contrast Glances Unattainable Prison Walls

Book:The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

“A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.”

Men Love Giving Eye Past Forget Ems Prize Pairs Dozen Glances Dazzle Bright Eyes

Book:Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges

Source: Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges

“Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love! For it is that native poetry springing up indigenous to Mind, The heart's own-country music thrilling all its chords, The story without an end that angels throng to hear, The word, the king of words, carved on Jehovah's heart!”

Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated

“Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.”

Source: Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus

“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”

Love Cities Cases Objects Lovers Ultimate Wander Settling Glances Metropolitan

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities

“Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.”

Love Sometimes Evil Quality Slave Dust Lifts Glances Inclination Despots

Author:Sophie Swetchine