“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”
Source: The Beggar's Opera
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John Gay 56
English poet and playwright 1685–1732Related quotes
“I loved him too much not to hate him at all!”
Je l'ai trop aimé pour ne le point haïr!
Source: Hermione, Andromaque (1667), act II, scene I.
Algernon, Act II
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The Inferno (1917), Ch. XVI
Context: Turn where you will, everywhere, the man and the woman ever confronting each other, the man who loves a hundred times, the woman who has the power to love so much and to forget so much. I went on my way again. I came and went in the midst of the naked truth. I am not a man of peculiar and exceptional traits. I recognise myself in everybody. I have the same desires, the same longings as the ordinary human being. Like everybody else I am a copy of the truth spelled out in the Room, which is, "I am alone and I want what I have not and what I shall never have." It is by this need that people live, and by this need that people die.
“A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.”
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Justine (1957)
“I still think too much about the mothers
And ask what is man born of woman.”
"Preparation," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)
Context: I still think too much about the mothers
And ask what is man born of woman.
He curls himself up and protects his head
While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running,
He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit.
Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”