George Herbert - Love Quotes

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Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert

Ah, my dear God! though I am clean forgot,
Let me not love Thee, if I love Thee not.

George Herbert

'You must sit down,' says Love, 'and taste my meat.'
So I did sit and eat.

George Herbert

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

George Herbert

The God of love my Shepherd is,
And He that doth me feed:
While He is mine, and I am His,
What can I want or need?

George Herbert

Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

George Herbert

In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

George Herbert

Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

George Herbert

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

George Herbert