Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

Leonardo da Vinci

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives...

Leonardo da Vinci

For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved.

Leonardo da Vinci

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Oscar Wilde

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Oscar Wilde

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Oscar Wilde

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Oscar Wilde

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Paul Reubens

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

Patrick Ness

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

Patrick Rothfuss

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

Patrick Rothfuss

I guess I'm destined to be loveless

Patrick Rothfuss

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Patrick Rothfuss

Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Patrick Rothfuss

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

Patrick Rothfuss

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

Patch Adams

I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where