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Short Love Quotes

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Deep Love Quotes

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Michel de Montaigne

Famous Love Quotes

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

William Hazlitt

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

More Love Quotes

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

William Shakespeare

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Bertrand Russell

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Mohandas Gandhi

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Honore de Balzac

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mohandas Gandhi

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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