“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return...”
— George Eliot, book Daniel Deronda
Daniel Deronda (1876)
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Kōki Hirota (1878–1948) Japanese politician executed
Quoted in "Modern Japan: A Brief History" - Page 135 - by Arthur E. Tiedemann - 1962.
“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”
H. Havelock Ellis (1859–1939) British physician, writer, and social reformer
“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: Challenger Deep
“The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, maltreatment, domination. The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.
“Love is the law, love under will.”
Aleister Crowley book The Book of the Law
I:57.
Variant: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
Love is the law, love under will.
Source: The Book of the Law (1904)
