Cynical Love Quotes

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  We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Funny, Life

  "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Money

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Change

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.144, Penguin

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• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Family

  1601 Olivia.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.154.

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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Sarcastic, Depressing

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Marriage, Heartbreak

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  Bette Davis

  Love, Missing You, Breakup

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• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  John Ciardi

  Love, Relationship, Romance

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• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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• And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

  Frank Dane

  Love, Heart, Cynical

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  John Donne

  Love, Beauty, Sarcastic

  'Elegies' 'The Anagram' (1593-6)

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• Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Relationship, Dream, Action

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880.

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• In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

  John Spence

  Strong Women, Hippie, Thinking

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• If you don't risk anything you risk everything

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie

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• Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

  Amy Grant

  Wise, Fool, Chance

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

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