“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“Something snapped inside her. Of course Im afraid! Relationships do bad things to me. He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didnt want to hear it. You know what I wan...”

“Colin : Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women.Sugar Beth : Well, that sure does leave me out.Colin : Exactly. With agreeable women, Im unendingly considerat...”

“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”

“Hed lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and shed been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.”

“Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.”

“The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever.”

“I am one of those servants butlers usually who respectfully points out when their master is about to do something stupid: "You should probably only burn the document once the blackmail has been c...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way with...”

“When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life.”

“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”