Love Quotes: Expressions of the Heart (Page 17)

"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is only one of many passions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier"

Mae West, Actress

"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache"

Mae West, Actress

"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love"

Mae West, Actress

"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme"

Henry James, Writer

"We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"We pardon to the extent that we love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"In love we often doubt what we most believe"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh"

David Hockney, Artist

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

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