Love Quotes

Love and you shall be loved.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is blind. It will take over your mind. What you think is love, is truly not. You need to elevate your mind.

Eve

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Baba Dioum

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Jack Kerouac

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Marc Chagall

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

Molly Haskell

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cathe

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Jacques Maritain

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

Erich Segal

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

Britney Spears

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

On stage, I make love to 25, 000 people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

What a grand thing, to be loved What a grander thing still, to love.

Victor Hugo

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyste

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Barbara Howa

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.

Virgil

Courtly love - Poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

James Burke

If rough be love with you, be rough with love.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

I love to go to Washington - - If only to be near my money.

Bob Hope

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Alexandre Dumas

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ovid

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

George Gordon Byron

Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp