Famous Love Quotes - Page 6

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Love, Valentines Day, Confused

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Valentines Day, Nature

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

  Boethius

  Love, Valentines Day, Law

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• There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Life, Human Bondage

  Of Human Bondage ch. 71 (1915)

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• It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Cute, Confused

  Agatha Christie (2010). “An Autobiography”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Love is what you've been through with somebody.

  James Thurber

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Love, Passion, Romance

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.146

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• Don't forget to love yourself.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Positive, Compassion

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.33, BookBaby

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• To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Love, Dream, Missing Someone

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Life, Funny Marriage

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Love, Horse, Food

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• We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Wedding, Men

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• The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Pensees no. 680 (1658)

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• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

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• The love we give away is the only love we keep.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Valentines Day, Kindness

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• True love stories never have endings.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

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