“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.”
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George Jean Nathan12
American drama critic and magazine editor 1882–1958Related quotes
“Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.”
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) British philosopher
Reported by Brand Blanshard in 'Francis Herbert Bradley', Journal of Philosophy (1925).
“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) English novelist and poet
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
Charles Evans Hughes (1862–1948) American judge
As quoted in Ethics and Citizenship (1924) by John Walter Wayland, p. 208.
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
Autrefois on rêvait de posséder le cœur de la femme dont on était amoureux; plus tard sentir qu’on possède le cœur d’une femme peut suffire à vous en rendre amoureux.
"Swann in Love"
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol I: Swann's Way (1913)