Love Quotes

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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.

Francis de Sales

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Man can certainly keep on lying (and he does so); but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel (he does so); but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God. He can certainly flee from God (he does so) ; but he cannot escape Him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God (he does and is so) ; but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in His hate. He can certainly give himself to isolation (he does so — he thinks, wills and behaves godlessly, and is godless) ; but even in his isolation he must demonstrate that which he wishes to controvert — the impossibility of playing the "individual" over against God. He may let go of God, but God does not let go of him.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Barbara Cartland

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination — or to intelligence, to love — than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Giacomo Casanova

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Lord Alfred Douglas

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello