Love Quotes

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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith

Mary kept the belt of love, and oh, but she was gay!
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

William Allingham

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

To love what you do and feel that it matters — how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Katherine Anne Porter

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Miguel de Unamuno

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. In this sense the most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues.

Honoré de Balzac

I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,
This many and many a year.

Alexander Brome

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.