Love quotes V

Prévert Jacques 1900-1977

Les Enfants du Paradis

Love is so simple.

Prior Matthew 1664-1721

„A Better Answer"

I court others in verse: but I love thee in prose:
And they have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart.

Prior Matthew 1664-1721

„To a Child of Quality of Five Years Old"

For, as our different ages move,
´Tis so ordained (would Fate but mend it!)
That I shall be past making love,
When she begins to comprehend it.

Proust Marcel 1871-1922

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for further desires.

Proverbs and Sayings

Canadian Indian

Love Canada or give it back.

Proverbs and Sayings

French

L'amour est aveugle; l'amitié ferme les yeux
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Proverbs and Sayings

Irish

Money swore an oath that nobody who did not love it should ever have it.

Proverbs and Sayings

Jewish

You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.

Proverbs and Sayings

Medieval

Parents love their children more than children love their parents.

Proverbs and Sayings

Polish

The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

Pushkin Alexander 1799-1837

Eugene Onegin

A woman's love for us increases
The less we love her, sooth to say -
She stoops, she falls, her struggling ceases;
Caught fast, she cannot get away.

Radner Gilda

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

Ralegh Sir Walter 1552-1618

„As You came From the Holy Land"

Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning:
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.

Regnard Jean François

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.

Reik Theodor 1888-1969

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Repplier Agnes 1858-1950

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Rilke Rainer Maria 1875-1926

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of 1647-1680

„A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe..."

Love ...
That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

Rochester John Wilmot, Earl of 1647-1680

„Song"

Love a woman? You're an ass!
´Tis a most insipid passion
To choose out for your happiness
The silliest part of God's creation.

Roethke Theodore 1908-1963

„Open House"

My secrets cry aloud.
I have no need for tongue.
My heart keeps open house,
My doors are widely flung.
An epic of the eyes
My love with no disguise.

Rogers Samuel 1763-1855

Jacqueline

To know her was to love her.

Rossetti Christina 1830-1894

„A Birthday"

Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

Rothschild Baron 1840-1915

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

Rotten Johnny

Love is two minutes and fifty seconds of squelching.

Ruskin John 1819-1900

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

Autobiography

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

The Conquest of Happiness

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

Marriage and Morals

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Sagan Françoise 1935-1994

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

Saint-Exupéry Antoine de 1900-1944

Wind, Sand and Stars

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Santayana George 1863-1952

Work and love - these are the basics; waking life is a dream controlled.

Saphir Moritz G.

Love makes of the wisest man a fool, and of the most foolish woman, a sage.

Scherer Paul 1933-

Love is a spendthrift, leaves its arithmetic at home, is always „in the red".

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832

The Lay of the Last Minstrel

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.

Sedley Sir Charles c.1639-1701

„Love still has something"

Love still has something of the sea
From whence his mother rose.

Segal Erich 1937-

Love Story

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

As You Like It

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly
That ever love did make thee run into
Thou has not loved.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

As You Like It

I pray you, do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

As You Like It

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Much Ado About Nothing

Speak low, if you speak love.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Much Ado About Nothing

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

All's Well that Ends Well

It were all one
That I sould love a bright particular star
And think to wed it, he is so above me.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Antony and Cleopatra

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Antony and Cleopatra

Give me some music - music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.

Shakespeare Willaim 1564-1616

Hamlet

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Julius Caesar

Do not presume too much upon my love;
I may do that I shall be sorry for.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

King Lear

Love is not love
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from the entire point.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

The Merchant of Venice

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

A Midsummer Night's Dream

For aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Othello

O curse of marriage!
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For other's uses.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Othello

Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Pericles

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Romeo and Juliet

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Romeo and Juliet

What love can do that dares love attempt.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Romeo and Juliet

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Troilus and Cressida

To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Twelfth Night

What is love? ´tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure;
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Twelfth Night

Let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Twelfth Night

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 29

Haply I think on thee - and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 57

So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 116

Love alters not with his brief hours and weks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Sonnet 130

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Venus and Adonis

Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616

Venus and Adonis

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

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