So the Major, full and merry, lolled in his chair, took out his pipe, lighted it with a bank note, and, wiping the breakfast from his lips with the end of a napkin, turned his laughing eyes on the women, and said:— “Fair ladies, I like you as dessert!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

At this the charming girl threw herself on my breast, crying in the voice of true love, “I love you and you alone, darling; but it is not true that your honour bids you marry me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Don't let it lead you astray, my child.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

My lord, I love you; And durst commend a secret to your ear Much weightier than this work.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Your letter is like you, and what could I say of it that would be higher praise than that?
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Isle of Barra, [38] Western Hebrides We pass from Cuchulainn’s beautiful island to what is now the most Celtic part of Scotland—the Western Hebrides, where the ancient life is lived yet, and where the people have more than a faith in spirits and fairies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Let him read them how the brothers afterwards journeyed into Egypt for corn, and Joseph, already a great ruler, unrecognized by them, tormented them, accused them, kept his brother Benjamin, and all through love: “I love you, and loving you I torment you.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He seemed to say, with his sad and resolute look, if he did not say it with his lips, “I love you, and I know you prefer me.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Suddenly he seized her arm, and said, “I can endure no longer the anguish of my life: I love you, and if you will not be mine, I care for no one’s fate.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

how learned in lils you are!”
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

He can't do anything, my dear Lauzun; I love you as once he loved La Valliere, as to-day he loves Montespan; I am not afraid of him.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The agreement of all these writers, not only among themselves, but with the convictions to which Animal Magnetism has led in latter years, and finally even with what might be concluded from my speculative doctrine on this point, is surely a most remarkable phenomenon.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

On the whole, although it never distinctly occurred to Dolly to murmur at her lot in life yet at times she sighed over the dreadful insignificance of being only a little girl in a great family of grown up people.
— from Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Derry,” she said, kissing him with that soothing air of maternity which is a woman’s highest endowment, “though I am going to say something dreadfully forward and bold, I shall risk all lest I lose you, and, if that happens, my poor heart will break and be at rest forever.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy

you hope none from mine?" rejoined Fanny in a tone of reproach:—"Indeed, my dear young lady, I love you as well as my mother did, and will do as much for you as she would have done.
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

My Lord, I loue you; And durst commend a secret to your eare Much waightier then this worke.
— from Henry VIII by William Shakespeare