Love, Marriage and The Sexes

"Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all" - Heretics, 1905.
"A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage" - Chaucer.
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men" - A Handful of Authors.
"The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis" - "David Copperfield", Chesterton on Dickens, 1911.
"A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is" - Robert Browning.
"Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue" - Chesterton on Dickens.
"Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline" - Manalive.
"The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous" - ILN 1/9/09.
"I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess" - The Victorian Age in Literature.

These quotations belong to "American Chesterton Society".