Love & Romance: Love Quotes

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"In love there are two things - bodies and words"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him"

Sri Chinmoy, Philosopher

"Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is"

Sri Chinmoy, Philosopher

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"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, Writer

"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Free love sounds great"

Laura Prepon, Actress

"To find a prince, you gotta kiss some toads"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose"

Nelson Algren, Novelist

"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"

Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

"Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love"

Galway Kinnell, Poet

"I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind"

Anne Bronte, Novelist

"A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them"

Ninon de L'Enclos, Author

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past"

Evan Esar, Writer

"When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Actress

"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken"

Marguerite de Valois, Royalty

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love"

Wally Lamb, Author

"I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic"

Alphonse de Lamartine, Poet

"Love will make a way out of no way"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one"

Sean Penn, Actor

"Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course"

Wally Lamb, Author

"When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom"

John Gray, Author

"Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy"

Jake Gyllenhaal, Actor

"One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen"

James Howell, Writer

"I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love"

George Michael, Musician

"And I don't need a lot to get by, I just need a little love"

Zach Bryan, Musician

"I believe in love, always"

Lord Alfred Douglas, Poet

"When I'm in love, I wake up happy"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great"

Roger de Rabutin, Writer

"We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire"

Robert J. Dole, Politician

"The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains"

Josephine Baker, Dancer

"What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love"

Brooke Foss Westcott, Theologian

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart"

Basil Rathbone, Actor

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