love quotes

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
(Shirley MacLaine)

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
(Mother Teresa0

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
(Javan)

Love conquers all.
(Virgil)

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
(James A. Baldwin)

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
(Voltaire)

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
(Barbara de Angelis)

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
(George Bernard Shaw)

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
(William Shakespeare)

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
(Euripides)

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
(Leo Buscaglia)

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
(Peter Ustinov)

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
(Robert Frost)

Love is being stupid together.
(Paul Valery)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
(Ingrid Bergman)

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
(Rupert Brooke)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
(Thomas Carlyle)

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
(George Jean Nathan)

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
(Honore de Balzac)

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
(Julie Andrews)

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
(Andre Breton)

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
(William Shakespeare)

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
(Plato)

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
(Lao Tzu)

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
(Richard Bach)

Do all things with love.
(Og Mandino)

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
(George Bernard Shaw)

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
(Judy Garland)

Fortune and love favor the brave.
(Ovid)

Friendship is Love without his wings!
(Lord Byron)

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
(Charles Caleb Colton)

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
(Albert Einstein)

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
(Barbara Pym)

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
(Theodore Dreiser)

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
(Judy Garland)

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
(Daphne Rae)

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
(George Eliot)

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
(J. D. Salinger)

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
(Emmet Fox)

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
(A. A. Milne)

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
(Michel de Montaigne)

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
(Ovid)

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
(Erich Fromm)

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
(Erich Fromm)

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
(Miguel de Unamuno)