Love & Romance: Love Quotes

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"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

Joseph Addison, Writer

Joseph Addison

"But surely, for everything you have to love, you have to pay some price"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"Reason is not what decides love"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

Paulo Coelho

"Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

Paulo Coelho

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

Alexandre Dumas

"Love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life"

Truman Capote, Novelist

Truman Capote

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love"

Margaret Atwood, Novelist

Margaret Atwood

"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

Ray Bradbury

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

""Sex" is as important as eating or drinking, and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"We perceive when love begins, and when it declines, by our embarrassment when alone together"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"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, Novelist

J.D. Salinger

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"What force is more potent than love?"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"In order to create, there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful"

Robert Plant, Musician

Robert Plant

"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"I wear my heart on my sleeve"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"Love alone could waken love"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery"

Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman

Fulton J. Sheen

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

Thornton Wilder

"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

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