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1. "Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

2. "If you do love me, you will find me out."

William Shakespeare

3. "It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

May Sarton

Quotations about: Law and Crime

4. "We can't command our love, but we can our actions."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

5. "Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness -:- Woman and Man

6. "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Optimism and Hope

7. "When I?m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I?m near."

E.Y. Harburg, "Finian's Rainbow"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

8. "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

9. "When I wished to sing of love it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow it was transformed for me into love."

Franz Schubert

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia

10. "Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Ellen Key, "The Morality of Woman"

Quotations about: Marriage

11. "We can only learn to love by loving."

Iris Murdoch

12. "Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Manners and Ethics

13. "A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

14. "Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship."

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Richness and Money

15. "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

16. "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"

Quotations about: Memory

17. "Love conquers everything, let us, too, yield to love."

Virgil, "Eclogues"

18. "Love! Hate! Is there no third?"

Franz Grillparzer, "Sappho"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

19. "Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved in reality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

20. "A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."

Irish proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Woman and Man

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21. "Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

22. "Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

John Ruskin

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness -:- Education

23. "To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

24. "In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

John Osborne, "Tom Jones"

Quotations about: Various

25. "To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

26. "Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."

Lynda Barry

27. "Every lover is a soldier."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Amores"

28. "I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Amores"

29. "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Reality and Imagination

30. "The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much."

Amelia E. Barr, "The Belle of Bolling Green"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

31. "In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

32. "The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

33. "I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Dust Tracks on a Road"

34. "Love is a great beautifier."

Louisa May Alcott

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

35. "Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."

Margaret Mead

Quotations about: Envy

36. "The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together - the lover with the loved, the one who hates with the hated. Both passions are tested by separation."

John Berger

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

37. "Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

Quotations about: Marriage

38. "Variety is the spice of love."

Helen Rowland, "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl"

39. "To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Happiness -:- Woman and Man

40. "Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Marriage

41. "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

42. "Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Marriage -:- Truth and Falsity

43. "The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotations about: Human

44. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

Lao-tse

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear -:- Power and Weakness

45. "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

46. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

47. "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

48. "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

David Viscott

49. "If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

50. "A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Human

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