Quote#Love
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their…
Quote byThomas Malory · 1405–1471
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (first known edition 1485), Book XVIII, ch. 25.
English (original)
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
— Thomas Malory
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