Infatuation

(152 votes)   Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.

Judith Viorst
1935-, American Poet, Journalist

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(135 votes)   I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(135 votes)   Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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(132 votes)   It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(116 votes)   Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(105 votes)   I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892-1950, American Poet

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(102 votes)   Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
1873-1954, French Author

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(91 votes)   There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist, Essayist

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(90 votes)   Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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