Quotes about love
love broken break
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
love different copies
Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.
love names numbers
Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
love men persons
No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.
love jealousy self-love
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
love deception deceit
In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.
love pride two
Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.
love heart quality
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.
love mistress complaining
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
love passion blow
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
love men may
A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
love men deception
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
love jealousy giving
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.
love self kind
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
love jealousy being-jealous
There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.
love people heard
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
love strength determination
The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.
love women passion
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
love friendship women
The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
love friendship true-friend
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
love friendship true-friend
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
love forgiveness long
As long as we love, we can forgive.
love kindness hate
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
love-is men self
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
love cures remedy
There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.
love-is gallantry smallest
Love is the smallest part of gallantry.
love crush hate
Be as far from desiring the popular love as fearful to deserve the popular hate; ruin dwells in both: the one will hug thee to death; the other will crush thee to destruction: to escape the first, be not ambitious; to avoid the second, be not seditious. Francis Quarles
love charity faith-in-god
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
love moments particular
She loved him, though not at this particular moment. Ian Mcewan
love-you atonement shame
Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
love romantic believe
I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
love luck suffering
Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck. Ian Fleming
love appreciation confused
Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared