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Quotes about Love


The love light in her eye.

Hartley Coleridge

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Thomas Proverb

And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)

He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.

Thomas Fuller

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

Hosea Bible

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

St Francis of Assisi

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Jackie Mason

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

George Santayana

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Felix Adler

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

Matt Groening

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.

John Baptiste Dubois

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

Samuel Johnson

She's all my fancy painted her, She's lovely, she's divine.

William Mee

When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

John Donne

Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Grudge no expense—yield to no opposition—forget fatigue—till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . . .

Maria Weston Chapman

Love him who tells you your faults in private.

Hebrew Proverb

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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