6,614 quotes
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn
Leader · English · 1644 – 1718
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Laurence J. Peter
Writer · Canadian · 1919 – 1990
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
Author · English · 1478 – 1535
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Margaret Fuller
Critic · American · 1810 – 1850
Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.
Elias Hicks
Clergyman · American · 1748 – 1830
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
William Godwin
Writer · English · 1756 – 1836
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Dean Inge
Author · English · 1860 – 1954
There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leader · American · 1929 – 1968
In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage.
Gustav Mahler
Composer · Austrian · 1860 – 1911
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.
Ben Nicholson
Artist · British · 1894 – 1982
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
President · American · 1856 – 1924
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Novelist · French · 1869 – 1951
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk
Novelist · American · b. 1961
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
Robertson Davies
Novelist · Canadian · 1913 – 1995
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!
Marie de France
Poet · French
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides
Poet · Greek
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster
Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot
Author · British · 1819 – 1880
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
David Herbert Lawrence
Writer · English · 1885 – 1930
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer · Scottish · 1850 – 1894
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
Poet · English · 1757 – 1827
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
Critic · French · 1808 – 1890
In love we often doubt what we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer · French · 1613 – 1680
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
Author · American · 1817 – 1862
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher · American · 1902 – 2001
I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
Mason Cooley
Writer · American
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull
Statesman · Lakotan · d. 1890
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
Poet · Scottish · 1830 – 1867
If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
Douglas Horton
Clergyman · American · 1891 – 1968
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de Angelis
Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
Poet · British · 1788 – 1824
If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence.
Darren L. Johnson
Author · American
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Writer · Italian · 1469 – 1527
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac
Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
Writer · German · 1875 – 1955
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poet · English · 1806 – 1861
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen
Writer · British · 1775 – 1817
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden
Poet · English · 1907 – 1973
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Robert Southey
Poet · English · 1774 – 1843
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois
Writer · French · 1885 – 1967
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
Quentin Tarantino
Director · American · b. 1963
Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.
Nikki Giovanni
Poet · American · b. 1943
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist · Colombian · b. 1927
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales
Clergyman · Swiss · 1567 – 1622