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“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“There's small choice in rotten apples.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance; commits his body
To painful labor, both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou li’st warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks, and true obedience-
Too little payment for so great a debt.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband;
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,
And no obedient to his honest will,
What is she but a foul contending rebel,
And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
I asham’d that women are so simple
‘To offer war where they should kneel for peace,
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions, and our hearts,
Should well agree with our external parts?”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“We will have rings and things and fine array”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“too much sadness hath congealed your blood,
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“This is a way to kill a wife with kindness,
And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.
He that knows better how to tame a shrew,
Now let him speak. 'Tis charity to show.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Such a mad marriage never was before.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“that would thoroughly woo her, wed her and bed her and rid the house of her!”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew [with Biographical Introduction]

“And I have thrust myself into this maze,

Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“I wanted to kiss her, she was beautiful again to me. But I dared not risk it. It wasn't only that I would have frightened her, it was that the desire to kill her was almost overpowering. Some fierce purely male instinct in me wanted to claim her now simply because I had claimed her in another way before.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief

“It's always "I love you" but never "I can give you death." This primitive country has picked you clean. It has shackled you in permanent exile. Every room you enter, every hat you are forced to wear....the stern landlord, the deferential businessman, the loyal son...all these roles you conform to and none of them your true nature. What rage you must feel as you choke on your sorrow. The first time I laid eyes on you, your beautiful face, I saw that sorrow. I did not know how it got there or why it was so voluminous. I can take away that sorrow, Louis. I can give you the death you begged your feeble, blind, degenerate, nonexistent god for. But I can do it....joyfully. I can swap this life of shame, swap it out for a dark gift and a power you can't begin to imagine. You just have to ask me for it. You just have to nod your beautiful head.... and say yes. I love you, Louis. You are loved. I send my love to you, and you send it back round to me. And this circle, this home we barely had a glimpse of how it frightens me as much as it does you. Be my companion, Louis. Be all the beautiful thing you are, and be them without apology. For all eternity.”
― Anne Rice, Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire #5 VF/NM

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
― Anne Rice

“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.”
― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“Love, hatred, you have only to choose; they all sleep under the same roof; you can double your existence, caress with one hand and strike with the other.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“...she refuses all amorous alms, and such a refusal, to my view, justifies a theft.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours”
― Choderlos De Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“There isn't a woman who doesn't love the Perfect Man; In their wild dreams they see nothing but charms and virtues and gleefully deck out the men of their choice in all these qualities; but these glittering robes fit for a God often drape an abject model; but whatever he is, no sooner have they dressed him up than, dazzled by their own handiwork, they prostrate themselves to adore him.”
― Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de, Les liaisons dangereuses

“I had to flatter them the whole evening to appease them; for old women must not be angered - they make young women's reputations.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“Do men ever appreciate the women they possess?”
― Chodelos De Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“The wicked man has his virtues, the good man his weaknesses”
― Choderlos De Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“So many women do not see in their present lover their future enemy”
― Choderlos De Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“There is no longer any happiness for me, no longer any peace but in the possession of this woman whom I love and hate with equal fury. I cannot tolerate my life until hers is again mine to dispose of. Then, contented and calm, I shall see her in turn buffeted by the storms that assail me now, and I shall stir up a thousand others too. I want hope and fear, faith and suspicion, all the evils devised by hate and all the blessings conferred by love, to fill her heart and to succeed one another there at my will.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“But she was radiant, and she was mine; she was as she'd always been, and I told her so silently with all my power, that she was lovely as my earliest memory of her when she had had her old fancy clothes still, and she would dress up so carefully and carry me on her lap in the carriage to church.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat