"Oh, flatter me; for love delights in..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

“Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.”

“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”

“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”

“We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.”

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.”

“If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.”

“You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.”