Robert Heinlein

"Love is that condition in wich the happiness of another person is essential to your own"

Robert Heinlein

WHO: Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer borned in Butler (Missouri)

WHERE: This quote comes from Jubal Harshaw in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"

WHEN: Robert Heinlein wrote this in 1961.

William Shakespeare

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better"

William Shakespeare

WHO: William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist, and actor borned in 1564 (Warwickshire). Considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time, he died at the age of 51 (April 23, 1616).

WHERE:  This quote comes from the play Twelfth Night.

WHEN: Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night near the middle of his career, probably in the year 1601/2 during the reign of Elizabeth I (ruled 1558–1603).


Related movie: Twelfth Night.