Love Quotes

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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder. Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Julio Cortázar

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A. Whitney Brown

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Anthony Trollope

Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Richard Lovelace

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

You may glory in a team triumphant, but you will fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he was a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

August Strindberg

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Richard Le Gallienne

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord