True love

Kissing her goldfish (click image to enlarge)

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

 

Ardent in one way or another

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. - Sarah Fielding