A man may talk inspiringly to ...

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.
 Helen Rowland

Quotes from the same author

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
 Helen Rowland
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
 Helen Rowland
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
 Helen Rowland
Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother!
 Helen Rowland
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
 Helen Rowland