Love Quotes

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Havelock Ellis

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Sebastien - Roch Nicolas

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

George Santayana

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

Sir Winston Churchill

Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you - - Out of love - - Takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjld

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

We like someone because. We love someone although.

Henri De Montherlant

The love of money is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.

Stephen Shobe

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

David Pratt

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Kahlil Gibran

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty.

William Shakespeare

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

M. C. Esche

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

Nancy Spain

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.

William Wharton

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia.

H. L. Mencken

Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back.

Thomas a Kempis

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

Art Costa

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self - Love might impair your judgment.

Seneca

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77