Love quotes I
Allen Woody 1935
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Amis Sir Kingsley 1922-1995
„A Bookshop idyll"
We men have got love well weighed up; our stuff
Can get by without it.
Women don't seem to think that's good enough;
They write about it.
Anonymous
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Anonymous
Let those love now, who never loved before;
Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Anonymous
(pamphlet from Chinese Family Planning Centre)
Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.
Anonymous
Passing By
There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never a face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by
And yet I love her till I die.
Anonymous
It's love that makes the world go round.
Anonymous
(song)
It is good to be merry and wise,
It is good to be honest and true,
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.
Anouilh Jean 1910-1987
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Anouilh Jean 1910-1987
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Anouilh Jean 1910-1987
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Anouilh Jean 1910-1987
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy - and that is life.
Anthony Metropolitan of Sourozh
Beginning to Pray
So often when we say, „I love you,"we say it with a huge „I" and a little „you".
Arnold Matthew 1822-1888
Dover Beach
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another.
Assisi St Francis of 1181-1226
„Prayer of St Francis"
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Atkinson Brooks 1894-1984
Once Around The Sun
We cheerfully assume that, in some mystic way, love conquers all; that good outweights evil in the just balances of the universe, and that at the 11th hour, something gloriously trimphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
Atwood Margaret 1939-
Fear has a smell, as
Love does.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
The Dyer's Hand
Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
,,The Love Feast"
In an upper room at midnight
See us gathered on behalf
Of love according to the gospel
Of the radio-phonograph.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
„This Lunar Beauty"
Love shall not near
The sweetness here,
Nor sorrow take
His endless look.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
,,September 1, 1939"
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choise
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
„Stop All the Clocks"
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
„As I Walked Out One Evening"
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
Augustine St. 354-430
Joannis
Love and do what you like.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Persuasion
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Austen Jane 1775-1817
Pride and Prejudice
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays
They do best who, if they cannot but admit Love, yet make it keep quarter; and sever it wholly from their serious affairs and actions of life.
Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays „Of Death"
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
Baeck Leo 1873-1956
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Bainbridge Beryl 1934-
A Weekend with Cloud
He is, after all, the reflection of the tenderness I bear for myself. It is always ourselves we love.
Bernes Julian 1946-
Talking It Over
Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.
Baudelaire Charles 1821-1867
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de 1732-1799
The Barber of Seville
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from the other animals.
Beaumont Francis 1584-1616
The Maid's Tragedy
Those have most power to hurt us, that we love.
Beerbohm Sir Max 1872-1956
Zuleika Dobson
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.
Behn Aphra 1640-1689
The Lover's Watch: Four o'clock
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Behn Aphra 1640-1689
Lycidus
Since man with that inconstancy was born,
To love the absent, and the present scorn,
Why do we deck, why do we dress
For such a short-lived happiness?
Why do we put attraction on,
Since either way ´tis we must be undone?
Belloc Hilaire 1870-1953
Fatigue
I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the Time.
Benson Stella 1892-1933
This is the End
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Bernanos Georges 1888-1948
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
The Bible
New Testament: I John ch.4 v.18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
The Bible
New Testament: St John ch.15 v.13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The Bible
New Testament: St Luke ch.6 v.27
Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.
Bissonette David
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
Blake William 1757-1827
Book of Thel
Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod,
Or Love in a golden bowl?
Blake William 1757-1827
Note-book
Never seek to tell love, Love that never told can be.
Blake William 1757-1827
„The Smile"
There is a Smile of Love,
And there is a Smile of Deceit,
And there is a Smile of Smiles
In which these two Smiles meet.
Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Experience „The Clod and the Pebble"
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.
Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Experience „The Clod and the Pebble"
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Innocence „The Divine Image"
To Mercy Pity Peace and Love,
All pray in their distress.
Blake William 1757-1827
Songs of Innocence „The Divine Image"
For Mercy has a human heart
Pity a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And peace, the human dress.
Blanch Lesley 1907-
The Wilder Shores of Love
She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.
Bloomfield Harold H.
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.
Boethius 476-524
De Consolatione Philosophiae
Who can give a law to lovers? Love is a greater law unto itself.
Bourdillon F.W. 1852-1921
Among the Flowers „Light"
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
Brecht Bertholt 1898-1956
Mother Courage
War is like love. It always finds a way.
Brenan Gerald 1894-1987
Thoughts in a Dry Season
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
Bridges Robert 1844-1930
The Growth of Love
Beauty sat with me all the summer day,
Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye;
Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by,
Love in her train stood ready for his prey.
Bronté Emily 1818-1848
Wuthering Heights
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
„The Life Beyond"
I thought when love for you died, I should die.
It's dead. Alone, mostly strangely, I live on.
Brown Thomas 1663-1704
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
Browning Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861
Sonnets from the Portuguese
I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Browning Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861
Sonnets from the Portuguese
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Browning Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861
Sonnets from the Portuguese
If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only.
Browning Robert 1812-1889
„Cristina"
She should never have looked at me,
If she meant I should not love her!
Browning Robert 1812-1889
A Death in the Desert
Such ever was love's way; to rise, it stoops.
Bruyere Jean de la 1645-1696
Les Caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle
The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
Burns Robert 1759-1796
„Bonnie Lesley"
To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever,
For Nature made her what she is,
And ne'er made anither!
Burns Robert 1759-1796
„A Red Red Rose"
O, my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
Bussy-Rabutin Comte de 1618-1693
Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour
Love comes from blindness,
Friendship from knowledge.
Butler Samuel „Hudibras" 1612-1680
Genuine Remains „Miscellaneous Thoughts"
All love at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets, until ´tis fine;
But when ´tis settled on the lee,
And from th'impurer matter free,
Becomes the richer still, the older,
And proves the pleasanter, the colder.
Butler Samuel „Hudibras" 1612-1680
Hudibras
Love is a boy, by poets styled,
Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.