On Valentine’s Day My Favorite Couples
By bert on February 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM in Current Affairs
Anthony & Cleopatra
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.”
Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra (2.2.244)
Lancelot & Guinevere
“Like souls that balance joy and pain,
With tears and smiles from heaven again
The maiden Spring upon the plain
Came in a sunlit fall of rain.
In crystal vapor everywhere
Blue isles of heaven laugh’d between,
And far, in forest-deeps unseen,
The topmost elm-tree gather’d green
From draughts of balmy air.”
First stanza of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Scarlet O’Hare and Rhett Butler
“I’m not asking you to forgive me. I’ll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I’ll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There’s one thing I do know… and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we’re alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”
Spoken by Rhett Butler, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz
The funniest couple ever on television.
John F. Kennedy & Jacqueline Bouvier
“But her refusal to cultivate important people was a source of annoyance to her political husband. At a party, he was overheard saying, “The trouble with you, Jackie, is that you don’t care enough about what people think of you.” She snapped back, “The trouble with you, Jack, is that you care too much about what people think of you.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, A Portrait in Her Own Words, Edited by Bill Adler
Ray and Debra Barone
The second funniest couple ever on television.
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Hillary on dealing with their tough times together: “I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right, regardless of what the world thought.”
Source: Cnn.com, June 7, 2007.
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