"The Lees of Happiness"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
Context: It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Stop being so…"
"Charming? Attractive? Irresistible?
"I'm going with arrogant.”
Source: Bitter Blood
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage
On a child doing homework near the family’s television set, in Roger’s Version (1986)
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
“You love new boyfriend?"
"I think so. Yes."
"Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Variant: Mr Right:
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
