Love quotes VI
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice; but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable, but that I was not very lovable myself.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
„Prometheus Unbound"
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Sheridan Richard Brinsley 1751-1816
The Critic
An oyster may be crossed in love!
Shore Dinah
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you chance to love you enough.
Sidney Sir Philip 1554-1586
Arcadia
My true love hath my heart and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other giv'n;
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driv'n.
Sidney Sir Philip 1554-1586
Astrophel and Stella
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
Simpson Wallis 1896-1986
Letter to Edward VIII
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck that England has made of me.
Sitwell Dame Edith 1887-1964
„The Sleeping Beauty"
Forget-me-nots, whose eyes of childish blue,
Gold-starred like heaven, speak of love still true.
Sophocles c.496-406
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Southerne Thomas 1660-1746
Sir Anthony Love
Love is but discovery:
When that is made, the pleasure's done.
Spark Muriel 1918-
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
Spender Sir Stephen 1909-1995
I must have love enough to run a factory on,
Or give a city power, or drive a train.
Spenser Edmund c.1552-1599
Amoretti
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought,
-Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Spenser Edmund c.1552-1599
„Epithalamion"
Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lend me leave to come unto my love?
Spenser Edmund c.1552-1599
The Faerie Queen
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Spenser Edmund c.1552-1599
The Shepherd's Calendar „March. Willy's Emblem"
To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to God above.
Steele Sir Richard 1672-1729
(of Lady E. Hastings)
To love her is a liberal education.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Stoddard R.H.
We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
Suckling Sir John 1609-1642
Aglaura „Song"
If of herself she will not love,
Nothing can make her:
The devil take her!
Suckling Sir John 1609-1642
„Love's Offence"
Love is the fart
Of every heart:
It pains a man when ´tis kept close,
And others doth offend, when ´tis let loose.
Sullivan Henry Stack
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
Letter to Pope
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Swift Jonathan 1667-1745
Thoughts on Various Subjects
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Atalanta in Calydon"
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
Swinburne Algernon Charles 1837-1909
„Dolores"
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision
Our loves into corpses or wives.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the King „Lancelot and Elaine"
I know not if I know what true love is,
But if I know, then, if I love not him,
I know there is none other I can love.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
Idylls of the King „Merlin and Vivien"
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„Locksley Hall"
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„Maud"
Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the rose is blown.
For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„Maud"
O that ´twere possible
After long grief and pain
To find the arms of my true love
Round me once again!
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„The Princess"
Man is the hunter; woman is his game:
The sleek and shining creatures of the chase,
We hunt them for the beauty of their skins;
They love us for it, and we ride them down.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„The Princess'
O tell her, brief is life but love is long.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
„The Princess"
Ask me no more:thy fate and mine are sealed:
I strove against the stream and all in vain:
Let the great river take me to the main:
No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;
Ask me no more.
Terence c.190-159 BC
Andria
Lovers' rows make love whole.
Teresa Mother 1910-1997
I have found the paradox that if love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Tertullian c.160-c.220
Apologeticus
See how these Christians love one another.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
The History of Henry Esmond
We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Vanity Fair
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love transaction; the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
Thomas Edward 1878-1917
„Out In The Dark"
How weak and little is the light,
All the universe of sight,
Love and delight,
Before the might,
If you love it not, of night.
Thomas R.S.
„They"
There is no love
For such, only a willed gentleness.
Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
Thurber James 1894-1961
A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: „Love is what you've been through with somebody."
Tillich Paul 1886-1965
(attributed)
The first duty of love is to listen.
Tomalin Claire 1933-
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
Trench Herbert 1865-1923
Come, let us make love deathless.
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
The Bertrams
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
The Way We Live Now
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
Udkoff Bob
Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.
Ustinov Sir Peter
Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look that becomes a habit.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Eclogues no.8
Now I know what Love is.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Eclogues no.10
Love conquers all things: let us too give in to Love.
Walsh William 1663-1708
„Song: Of All the Torments"
In love alone we hate to find
Companions of our woe.
Warhol Andy 1927-1987
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
Washington Ned 1901-1976
„My Foolish Heart"
There's a line between love and fascination
That's hard to see on an evening such as this,
For they both give the very same sensation
When you're lost in the magic of a kiss.
Watkyns Rowland c.1616-1664
„Antipathy"
I love him not, but show no reason can
Wherefore, but this, I do not love the man.
Welles Orson 1915-1985
in The Third Man
„In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of
democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock."
Wesley Charles 1707-1788
„And can it be"
Amazing love! How can it be
That thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Wesley John 1703-1791
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
West-Meads Zelda 1947-
For most people, infidelity feels like the ultimate betrayal. Very few people can cope with the thought of their partner making love to, touching, and having candlelight dinners with somebody else.
Westcott Brooke Foss 1825-1901
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
Wiesel Elie 1928-
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
An Ideal Husband
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Wilson Sandy 1924-
It's never too late to have a fling
For autumn is just as nice as spring
And it's never too late to fall in love.
Winchilsea Lady Anne Finch 1661-1720
„Enquiry after Peace"
Love (if such a thing there be)
Is all despair, or ecstasy.
Poetry's the feverish fit,
Th' o'erflowing of unbounded wit.
Wooton Sir Henry 1568-1639
„Poem written in his youth"
Untrue she was; yet I believed her eyes,
Instructed spies,
Till I was taught, that love was but a school
To breed a fool.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
„Tis Said that some have Died"
´Tis said that some have died for love.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
„I travelled among unknown men"
I travelled among unknown men,
In lands beyond the sea;
Nor England! did I know till then
What love I bore to thee.
Wroth Lady Mary c.1586-c.1652
„Love, a child, is ever crying"
Love, a child, is ever crying:
Please him and he straight is flying.
Give him, he the more is craving,
Never satisfied with having.
Wyatt Sir Thomas c.1503-1542
„Farewell, Love"
Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever.
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
A Drinking Song
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„The Pity of Love"
A pity beyond all telling,
Is hid in the heart of love.
Yeats William Butler 1865-1939
„Down by the Salley Gardens"
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-
white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the
tree;
But I, being youg and foolish, with her would not agree.
Zangwill Israel 1864-1926
In how many lives does Love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a „grand passion" than of a grand opera.