Love Quotes

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Francis Bacon

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sydney Harris

Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.

Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

God is Love - - I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is.

Samuel Butle

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

To surpress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress... Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget - Me - Nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

Christian Longe

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

W. H. Auden

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Frank Sinatra

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

Robertson Davies

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Francois Sagan

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

Art Costa

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

David Ben - Gurion

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Luther Standing Bea

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman... on Love & Relationships

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

Tom Lehre

Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy?

Martha Beck

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare, "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 2 scene 1

To love someone is to identify with them.

Aristotle

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible

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

Jose Ortega y Gasset

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

P. L. Berge

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.

W. Somerset Maugham, "Our Betters", 1923

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841