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Quotations by Subject: Love
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Showing quotations 91 to 120 of 162 quotations in our collections

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
We don't always get to choose what we love.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.: Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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 (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXIX
Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream
But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 2
By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3
Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4
For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1

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