Love quotes

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet What a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching so delicately, there’s no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain. George Colman the Younger (1762-1836) English dramatist All the little emptiness of love! Rupert Brooke (1887 – 1915) British Poet True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist Whoso loves believes the impossible Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) English poet When one is in love one begins to deceive oneself and one ends by deceiving others. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author Love is too young to know what conscience is William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet  There is no fear in Love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Saint John (1st century AD) Apostle of Jesus Many People when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Dr.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) English playwright,humorist Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love Bible, Song of Solomon How sad and bad and mad it was – But then, how it was sweet! Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. Jerrold. The greatest pleasure of life is love.. Sir W.Temple. There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe. O.W.Holmes. All true love is grounded on esteem. Buckingham. The heart of him who truly loves is a paradise on earth; he has god in himself, for God is Love. Lamennais. Love one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the sun in its course, sees nothing, from the dewdrop to the ocean, but a mirror which it brightens, and warms, and fills. Richter. Love gives itself; it is not bought. Longfellow. Love was to his impassioned soul, not a mere part of his existence, but the whole, the very life breath of his heart. Moore. We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. Goethe. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) English author To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now a days. Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatisr, Poet Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. G.K.Chesterton (1874-1963) British author Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed. R.H. Benson (1871-1914) British novelist If there’s delight in love, ‘tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. William Congreve (1670-1729) English dramatist Do you want to enjoy her love, or do you want to dominate it? John Drinwater (1882-1937) British author Love doesn’t grow on the trees like apples in Eden – It’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else. It’s all work, work. Joyce cary (1888-1957) British novelist The poets judged like philosophers when they feigned love to be blind. How often do we see in a women that our judgment and taste approve, and yet feel nothing of love toward her; how often what they both condemn, and yet feel a great deal. Greville I am not one of those who do not believe in love at first sight, but I believe in taking a second look. H. Vincent Passion may be blind; but to say that love is, is a libel and a lie. Nothing is more sharp-sighted or sensitive than true love, in discerning, as by an instinct, the feelings of another. W.H. Davis That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. Geothe. Much more genius is needed to make love than to command armies. Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! Robert Browning (1812-1889) English Poet A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. H.W.Dodds (1889-1980) Princeton University President. We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. Charteris, The Philanderer George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic I love her and she love me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. J. August Strindberg (1849-1912) Swedish dramatist The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist. If she herself will not love, Nothing can make her. The devil take her! Sir John Suckling (1609-1642) English poet And I shall find some girl perhaps And a better one then you, with eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I daresay she will do. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) British poet Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. Rosalind, As you like it William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet When love grows diseas’d, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a ling ring and consumptive passion. Sir George Etherege (1635-1691) English dramatist, diplomat Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. Ninon de Lenclos (1620-1705) French society lady and wit Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) English poet It is better to love two too many than one too few. Sir John Harington (1561-1612) English writer, courtier  One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one. Francois, Duc de La Rochfoucauld (1613-1680) French writer, moralist Women fall in love through their eyes and men through their eyes. Woodrow Wyatt (b.1918) British journalist. Labour politician In women pity begets love, in men love begets pity. J.Churton Collins (1848-1908) British author, critic, scholar Love is the history of a women’s life; it is an episode in man’s Madame de Stael (1766-1817) French writer, wit Falling in Love is a matter of intermittent propinquity; the cure for it, propinquity. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French aviator, writer One of the glories of society is to have created women where Nature made a female to have created a continuity of desire where Nature only thought of perpetuating the species,; in fine, to have invented love. George Moore (1852-1933) Irish author A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another. Jesus (4 BC-29 AD) founder of Christianity) Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. Hannah more. Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and purify the heart. Washington irving. Man’s love is of man’s life a part; it is women’s whole existence. Byron. Love which is only an episode in the life of man, is the entire history of women’s life. The soul of woman lives in love. Love is an image of god, and not a lifeless image, but he living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness. Luther. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; the serve all, but love only one. Balzac. A man loved by a beautiful and virtuous woman, carries with him a talisman that renders him invulnerable; every one feels that such a one’s life has a higher value than that of others. Mad. Dudevant. I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have lived and loved. Schiller. Nothing more excites to all that is noble and generous, than virtuous love. Home. Man while he loves is never quite depraved. Lamb It is better to have loved and lost, than not to love at all. Tennyson It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together. Sterne. The treasures of the deep are not so precious as are the concealed comforts of a man locked up in woman’s love. Middleton. Corporeal charms may indeed gain admires, but there must be mental ones to retain them. Colton. Love is an egotism of two. La salle. The love’s gift which god hath given, to man alone beneath the heaven. The silver link, the silver tie, which heart to heart, and mind to mind, in body and in soul can bind. Walter scott. Love never reasons, but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. Hannah more. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. Shakespeare.