love-stories

These are truly obscene love-stories for the country they depict- the country on their knees, taking it hard from the men appointed to rule.

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If that roof could speak, what love-stories could it not tell!

The Ball at Sceaux

If that roof could speak, what love-stories could it not tell!

The Ball at Sceaux

A modest, handsome, brave new Prince, we gladly accept the common report that he is endowed with every virtue; and we cry huzzay with the loyal crowd that hails his accession: it could make little difference to us, as we thought, simple young sweethearts, whispering our little love-stories in our corner.

The Virginians

For as there is not a word of truth in any of those prodigious love-stories which you used to swallow, nobody has been hurt except Wiggle himself, whose affections will now centre in the ham-and-beef shop.

The Book of Snobs

And then she does not choose to disoblige Joseph; for although she pretends to look above him, she listens, I believe, to some love-stories he tells her.

Clarissa Harlowe

I have always thought it to be one of the worst novels I have written, and almost to have justified that dictum that a novelist after fifty should not write love-stories.

An Autobiography

Some of my friends told me already that at fifty-five I ought to give up the fabrication of love-stories.

An Autobiography

Sometimes I told myself very adventurous love-stories with myself for hero, and at other times I planned out a life of lonely austerity, and at other times mixed the ideals and planned a life of lonely austerity mitigated by periodical lapses.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies

Sometimes I told myself very adventurous love-stories with myself for hero, and at other times I planned out a life of lonely austerity, and at other times mixed the ideals and planned a life of lonely austerity mitigated by periodical lapses.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies