Motivational Quotes

Love

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

1.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

2.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

3.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

4.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

6.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

7.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

8.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

9.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

10.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

11.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

12.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

David Viscott

14.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

16.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

19.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

20.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

21.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

22.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

23.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

25.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

26.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

28.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

31.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

32.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

34.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

36.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

37.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

39.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

40.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

41.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

42.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

43.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

44.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

45.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

46.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

47.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

49.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.