“Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, and are just as likely as not to love a man who has been throwing away his affection.”

“everyone who sees us -- especially Stanhope, who has been friends with us both for years -- knows we're just out for a ride. Not out for a ride."He looked at her, shaking his head in confusion. "Women truly are strange and unknowable creatures”

“Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.”

“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.”

“People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.”

“By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man”