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Quotes about Love


Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

George De Benneville

There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.

Susie Switzer

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting—more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Marcel Jouhandeau

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Anita Brookner

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Anita Epictetus

Do all things with love.

Og Mandino

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Petrarch

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitier

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Soul meets soul on lovers lips.

Dinah Shore

Give love, and love to your life will flow.

Madeline Bridges

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Countess Of Blessington

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.

Countess Of Lao-tzu

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.

Michael Leunig

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Collin Quek

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

La Bruyere

Music is love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

G. K. Chesterton

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

We love because it's the only true adventure.

William Gladstone

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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