“Lightly from fair to fair he flew,
And loved to plead, lament, and sue;
Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain,
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.”

“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“faint heart never won fair lady”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

“Ah, sigh for us whose hearts unseeing
Point all their passionate love in vain,
And blinded in the joy of being,
Meet only when pain touches pain.”

George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”

Jean Genet book The Thief's Journal

“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”

Richard Hovey (1864–1900) American writer

“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”

Thomas Malory (1405–1471) English writer, author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur''