Love Quotes

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

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

To be feared is much safer then to be loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

- - Aristotle

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is so much better when you are not married.

Maria Callas

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Pearl Bailey

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Beware of over - Great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fulle

I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

Elbert Hubbard

To love someone is to identify with them.

Aristotle

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

Audrey Hepburn

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Walter Benjamin

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Hesiod

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea.

Coming to America

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibbe

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

Oscar Wilde

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman? s name and claim to love her.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, October 20, 2003

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.

Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice over by David Boreanaz

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffe

Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.

John Lyly

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

G. K. Chesterton