Love Quotes

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Allan K. Chalmers

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Kahlil Gibran

I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad.

Anacreon

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever - wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied.

Fawn M. Brodie

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Orson Scott Card

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Dr. Karl Bowman

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward school with heavy looks.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

What force is more potent than love?

Igor Stravinsky

I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preache

To love what you do and feel that it matters - How could anything be more fun.

Katharine Graham

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Douglas Adams

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Swordfish

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.

Christopher S. Drew

Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Augusta E. Rundell

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

No machine can replace the human spark: spirit, compassion, love and understanding.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.

John Maye

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

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

Nature loves a burst of energy.

Boe Lightman

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people - A black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Charles Fox