Love Quotes

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

George Bernard Shaw

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Art and Letters".

We must love one another and die.

W. H. Auden, revised "Sept. 1, 1939".

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

Louis Gittne

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age.

Johann von Goethe

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat.

S. S. Biddle

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget - Me - Nots of the angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self - Reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

Henry Louis Mencken

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara DeAngelis

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

La Rochefoucauld

Some people think only intellect counts knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

Dean Koontz

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - - Only with what you are expecting to give - - which is everything.

Katharine Hepburn

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8

Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers".

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller, The Singer Trilogy

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridge

Stimulate the heart to love, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord.

W. T. Ussery

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

W. L. George

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

George Eliot

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke.

Hugh Elliott

Self - Love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Dr. Karl A. Menninge

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - Never.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

H. L. Mencken

Love builds bridges where there are none.

R. H. Delaney