Well, Mrs. Pamela, I can't say I like you so well as these ladies do; for I should never care, if you were my servant, to have you and your master in the same house together.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

He has never said, “I love you dearly,” till he knew what it was to love; he has never been taught what expression to assume when he enters the room of his father, his mother, or his sick tutor; he has not learnt the art of affecting a sorrow he does not feel.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I expect that if you make much of her she will not be able to resist, and I shall be glad to hear that she is lessening your sadness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I alone say: I love you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"I love you, Clara," he said, "I love you.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“But suppose that I should intend, like you, to ask her in marriage?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Why should I love you?
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Mountains, Rhenish Prussia, on the first Sunday in Lent young people used to collect straw and brushwood from house to house.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Since I left you, I have had a rich experience.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

“Why, captain,” says Sol., “I like your boat vastly, and you know I like you, but there might be a 'blow up' if I stayed on board much longer.”
— from The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West Containing the Whole of The Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Streaks of Squatter Life; and Far-Western Scenes; In a Series of Forty-Two Humorous Southern and Western Sketches, Descriptive of Incidents and Character by John S. Robb

p. 226 EPILOGUE Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and eyes Strain eastward till the darkness dies; Let signs and beacons fall or stand, And stars and balefires set and rise; Ye, till some lordlier lyric hand Weave the beloved brows their crown, At the beloved feet lie down.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

[PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE standing like a statue] I like your silence; it the more shows off
— from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

"Shall I leave you alone?
— from Roger Trewinion by Joseph Hocking

"I haven't," he said, "slept a fortnight at a time in the same bed since I left you, and it's killing me."
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

‘Suppose I loved you dearly enough to trust you with the happiness of all my life to come?’
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

"If," said Gurth, "you had stayed in London, you might have gone thence from town to town, and the duke would never have followed you.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

VI Such a little word!—only to say, "I love you"!
— from Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn

He wanted to say "I love you!"
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman

Don’t mind him, Mr. Smith; I love your poetry.
— from How to Become an Actor by Aaron A. Warford