Love Quotes

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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

Lord Alfred Douglas

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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

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

Barbara Cartland

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

John Maynard Keynes

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

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.

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love—every man works his oar voluntarily!

Francis de Sales

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Pierre Beaumarchais