Love & Romance: Love Quotes

"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there"

Dennis Potter, Dramatist

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

Edmund Waller, Poet

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

Julie Andrews, Actress

"You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love"

Sri Chinmoy, Philosopher

"It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools"

Katherine Mansfield, Author

"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person"

Margaret Chase Smith, Politician

"Love is a choice you make from moment to moment"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Lucy was lovely"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time"

Jill Robinson, Writer

"It's an interesting time that way. It's hard to meet good girls down here. It seems like they're all after something and interested in their own lives"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece"

Yeardley Smith, Actress

"Why not hold on to whatever I've got because it's as good as it's ever going to get. How can I believe that love is coming; how can I even believe that love exists, if I don't believe it's spiritually based?"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"There were so much affairs of me created by the media... Of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star"

Gabriela Sabatini, Athlete

"He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Sex is funny and love is serious"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men!"

Goldie Hawn, Actress

"You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"Love is the reason you were born"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy"

Martha Beck, Author

"At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

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