- For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France
- A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus Christ
- He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
- All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
- The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
Jeanette Winterson
- We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
- People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
- Love is… never asking for more than you are prepared to give.
Kim Casali
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
- Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Francis Beaumont
- Love is stronger than justice.
Sting
- Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Love Quotes 201 – 300
- Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
- Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
- There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Friedrich Schiller
- Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
Duke Ellington
- I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser
- Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
Diane Ackerman
- Love is suffering. One side always loves more.
Catherine Deneuve
- Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- What force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
- Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.
Joyce Meyer
- The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
- Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Pierre Corneille
- We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
- Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
- There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
Lorraine Hansberry
- I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
Leslie Fiedler
- Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van Gogh
- It’s important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
Connie Stevens
- How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym
- Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The sweetest noise on earth, a woman’s tongue; A string which hath no discord.
Bryan Procter
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
- I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
- Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
- Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
- As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Jesus Christ
- Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid