Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 17:30:27 EST From: "ah, words..." Subject: FILLER: Some Romance Quotes Comments: To: the romantic finger? [In case you've forgotten, the end of January plods toward us, one day at a time. With it approaches the deadline for our Romantic Contest. To help you get in the mood...some quotes from The International Thesaurus of Quotations, Rhoda Thomas Tripp, 1970] "Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the [other] sex as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals." Washington Irving, "Wives", Bracebridge Hall (1822). "When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome." Jean Giraudoux, "The Apollo of Bellac" (1942), adapted by Maurice Valency. "Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impractibility." Marya Mannes, "A Plea for Flirtation," _But Will It Sell?_ (1955-1964). "First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context." Elizabeth Bowen, "The House in Paris" (1935), 2.5. to words, to words... tink