Love quotes III
Gower John c.1330-1408
Confessio Amantis
It hath and schal ben evermor
That love is maister wher he wile.
Greene Graham 1904-1991
At the end of what is called the „sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
Greene Graham 1904-1991
The Quiet American
If only it were possible to love without injury - fidelity isn't enough ... The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to posses another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.
Greene Robert c.1560-1592
„The Shepherd's Wife's Song"
Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing,
As sweet unto a shepherd as a king,
And sweeter too;
For kings have cares that wait upon a crown,
And cares can make the sweetest love to frown.
Ah then, ah then,
If country loves such sweet desires do gain,
What lady would not love a shepherd swain?
Greer Germaine 1939-
The Female Eunuch
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
Hammerstein I I Oscar 1895-1960
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Hardy Thomas 1840-1928
Love lives on propinquity, but dies on contact.
Hawthorne Nathaniel 1804-1864
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Hazzard Shirley 1931-
The Transit of Venus
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.
Hepburn Katharine 1909-
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Herbert George 1593-1633
„Affliction (1)"
Ah, my dear God! though I am clean forgot,
Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.
Hesburgh Rev. Theodore
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Hölderlin Friedrich 1770-1843
I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.
Hood Thomas 1799-1845
Faithless Nelly Gray
The love that loves a scarlet coat
Should be more uniform.
Hugo Victor 1802-1885
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Hulbert Harold S.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Hume Cardinal Basil 1923-
(on homophobia and Catholicsm)
To love one another, whether of the same sex or of a different sex, is to have entered the area of richest human experience.
Jerome Jerome k. 1859-1927
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerrold Douglas 1803-1857
The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Boswell - Life
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Johnston Jennifer 1930-
We are constantly at risk from the people we love most. They are, after all, the only people who can do us serious damage.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
Volpone
Come, my Celia, let us prove,
While we can, the sports of love.
Joplin Janis 1943-1970
On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.
Joyce James 1882-1941
„The Holy Office"
My little love in light attire
Knows the soft flame that is desire.
Joyce James 1882-1941
Ulysses
Greater love than this, he said, no man hath that a man lay down his wife for his friend. Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.
Julian of Norwich 1343-after 1416
Revelations of Divine Love
Wouldest thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love was his meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love.
Wherefore shewed it He? for Love ... Thus was I learned that Love is our
Lord's meaning.
Jung Carl 1875-1961
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Keats John 1795-1821
„Lamia"
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's fast.
Keats John 1795-1821
„Ode to Psyche"
A bright torch, and a casement ope at night,
To let the warm Love in!
Key Ellen 1849-1926
The Morality of Women and Other Essays
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
King Henry 1592-1669
„The Surrender"
We that did nothing study but the way
To love each other, ...
Must learn the hateful art, how to forget.
King Martin Luther 1929-1968
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Kingsley Charles 1819-1875
„Airly Beacon"
Airly Beacon, Airly Beacon;
Oh the pleasant sight to see
Shires and towns from Airly Beacon,
While my love climbed up to me!
Kumar Satish
„Prayer for Peace"
Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Le Carré John
A Perfect Spy
Love is whatever you can still betray ... Betrayal can only happen if you love.
Lee Laurie 1914-1997
„Day of these Days"
Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows
and calls with a cockerel's tongue.
When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey.
Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-
„Can't Buy Me Love"
I don't care too much for money,
For money can't buy me love.
Lermontov Mikhail 1814-1841
A Hero of our Time
The love of savages isn't much better than the love of noble ladies; ignorance and simple-heartedness can be as tiresome as coquetry.
Lodge Thomas 1558-1625
„Love in my bosom like a bee"
Love in my bosom like a bee
Doth suck his sweet.
Lodge Thomas 1558-1625
„Love guards the roses of thy lips"
Love guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee;
If I approach he forward skips,
And if I kiss he stingeth me.
Lovelace Richard 1618-1658
„To Althea, From Prison"
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage;
If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free;
Angels alone, that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
Lovelace Richard 1618-1658
„To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"
True; a new mistress now I chase,
The first foe in the field;
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
Lowell Robert 1917-1977
‚Skunk Hour"
My mind's not right.
A car radio bleats,
„Love, O careless Love ..." I hear
my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,
as if my hand were at its throat ...
I myself am hell,
nobody's here.
Lowry Malcolm 1909-1957
Under the Volcano
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
Lydgate John c.1370-c.1451
The Story of Thebes
Love is mor than gold or gret richesse.
Mcaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essays ... „Moore's - Life of Lord Byron"
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.
Machiavelli Niccolo 1469-1527
Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.
Malory Sir Thomas d.1471
Le Morte D'Arthur
Through this man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
Malory Sir Thomas d.1471
Le Morte D'Arthur
For love that time was not as love is nowadays.