Love quotes II

Byrne Frankie

Respect is love in plain clothes.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

Alas! the love of women! It is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing!

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

´Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign
Of human frailty, folly, also crime,
That love anb marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are born in the same clime;
Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine -
A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time
Is sharpened from its high celestial flavour,
Down to a very homely household savour.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
´Tis woman's whole existence.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Don Juan

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Byron Lord 1788-1824

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Carew Thomas c.1595-1640

„Mediocrity in Love Rejected"

Give me more love or more disdain;
The torrid or the frozen zone.
Bring equal ease unto my pain,
The temperate affords me none;
Either extreme of love or hate,
Is sweeter than a calm estate.

Carew Thomas c.1595-1640

A Pastoral Dialogue

Love's flames will shine in every tear.

Carlyle Thomas 1795-1881

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Chagall Marc 1889-1985

In our lives there is a simple colour, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love.

Chanel Coco 1883-1971

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chesterfield Lord 1694-1773

Letters to his son

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions - var ity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.

Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chevalier Maurice 1888-1972

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Christina Queen of Sweden

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.

Church Richard Thomas 1893-1972

Be Frugal

Be frugal in the gift of love,
Lest you should kindle in return
Love like your own, that may survive
Long after yours has ceased to burn.

Clare John 1793-1864

Language has not the power to speak what love indites:
The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

Coffin Rev. William Sloane 1924-

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth, and too small for anything but love.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

Lacon

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Congreve William 1670-1729

The Double Dealer

See how love and murder will out.

Connor Ralph 1860-1937

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Cornford Frances 1886-1960

All Soul's Night
My love came back to me
Under the November tree
Shelterless and dim.
He put his hand upon my shoulder,
He did not think me strange or older,
Nor I, him.

Cummings E.E. 1894-1962

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

Davies Sir John 1569-1626

„Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing"

This wondrous miracle did Love devise,
For dancing is love's proper exercise.

Davies Sir John 1569-1626

„Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing"

Kind nature first doth cause all things to love;
Love makes them dance, and in just order move.

Davies W.H. 1871-1940

Sweet Stay-at-Home
I love thee for a heart that's kind -
Nor for the knowledge in thy mind.

Day-Lewis Cecil 1904-1972

„Hornpipe"

Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast
And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
Dewar Lord 1864-1930
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dickinson Emily 1830-1886

„The Bustle in a House"

The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon Earth -

The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity.

Diderot Denis 1713-1784

Paradoxe sur le comédien

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Dietrich Marlene 1901-1991

How do you know when love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.

Dirksen Everett 1896-1969

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Donne John 1572-1631

„Air and Angels"

Just such disparity
As is „twixt air and angels" purity,
´Twixt women's love, and men's will ever be.

Donne John 1572-1631

„The Anagram"

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne John 1572-1631

„The Anniversary"

Only our love hath no decay;
This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Donne John 1572-1631

„The Bait"

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Donne John 1572-1631

„The Canonization"

For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love.

Donne John 1572-1631

„A Lecture in the Shadow"

Love is a growing or full constant light;
And his first minute, after noon, is night.

Donne John 1572-1631

Love, all love of other sights controls.
And makes one little room an everywhere.

Donne John 1572-1631

„Love's Deity"

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost,
Who died before the god of Love was born.

Donne John 1572-1631

„The Sun Rising"

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881

The Brothers Karamazov

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.

Dostoevsky Fedor 1821-1881

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Douglas Lord Alfred 1870-1945

„Two Loves"

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Indian Emperor

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Dryden John 1631-1700

Mithridates

For, Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age,
When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

Dryden John 1631-1700

Palamon and Arcite

But love's a malady without a cure.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Secular Masque

Joy ruled the day, and Love the night.

Durant Will 1885-1981

(on his 90th Birthday)

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Durrell Lawrence 1912-1990

Justine

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, you can suffer for her, or you can turn her into literature.

Dyer Sir Edward 1545-1607

The Lowest Trees

Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs:
And love is love, in beggars and in kings ...
True hearts have ears and eyes, no tongues to speak:
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.

Ephelia

Female Poems

And yet I love this false, this worthless man,
With all the passion that a woman can;
Dote on his imperfections, though I spy
Nothing to love; I love, and know not why.

Eschenbach Marie Ebner von 1830-1916

Aphorism

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Euripides c.485-406 BC

The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.

Ferber Edna 1887-1968

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.

Fielding Henry 1707-1754

There is no greater folly than to seek to correct the natural infirmities of those we love.

Fielding Henry 1707-1754

Love is Several Masques

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding Henry 1707-1754

Tom Jones

What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfyng a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

Fletcher John 1579-1625

The Knight of Malta

Of all the paths lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.

Fletcher Phineas 1582-1650

Sicelides

Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter.

Forster E.M. 1879-1970

Howards End

Only connect! ...Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Franklin Benjamin 1706-1790

Poor Richard's Almanac

Where there's marriage without love, therewill be love without marriage.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Fromm Erich 1900-1980

The Art of Loving

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm Erich 1900-1980

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requiresthe most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

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

Frost Robert 1874-1963

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Gay John 1685-1732

Dione

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

Gershwin Ira 1896-1983

The Goldwyn Follies
In time the Rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But our love is here to stay.

Gibran Kahlil 1883-1931

The Prophet „On Work"

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

Trial by Jury

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly ugly daughter.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

The Yeoman of the Guard
It's a song of a merryman, moping mum,
Whose soul was sad, and whose glance was glum,
Who sipped no sup, and who craved no crumb,
As he sighed for the love of a ladye.

Gladstone W.E. 1809-1898

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Godolphin Sidney 1610-1643

„Song"

Or love me less, or love me more
And play not with my liberty;
Either take all, or all restore,
Bind me at least, or set me free.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Love is the ideal thing, marriage the real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

The Good-Natured Man

Fiendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774

The Vicar of Wakefield

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Gould Gerald 1885-1936

Monogamy

And you were very much in love with me,
And half I lured it on, and half I fled it,
Till honour turned its foolish face on mine
Taking for allies music and good wine -
And told me what I ought to say: I said it.

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