Frances Power Cobbe: Quotes about love

Frances Power Cobbe was Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading suffragette. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”

Frances Power Cobbe

The Confessions of a Lost Dog https://books.google.it/books?id=uNgBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA3 (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867), pp. 15-16.

“Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two people who truly love each other to be not who shall command, but, who shall yield.”

Frances Power Cobbe

Lecture IV, p. 107
The Duties of Women (1881)

“By some strange and sinister fatality the chosen victims at present are the most intelligent and friendly of our domestic favourites—the cats who purr in love and confidence as they sit beside us on the hearth; the dogs whose faithful hearts glow with an affection for us, truer and fonder than we may easily find in any human breast.”

Frances Power Cobbe

Source: The Modern Rack (1889), Ch. I: The Moral Aspects of Vivisection, p. 15

“I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”

Frances Power Cobbe

The Confessions of a Lost Dog (London: Griffith & Farran, 1867), p. 19.