When first we met we did not guess
that Love would prove so hard a master.
- Robert Bridges
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
- John Lennon
Love is the cheapest of religions.
- Cesare Pavese
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
- Woodrow Wyatt
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for loves sake only.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As rare as true love is, it is not as rare as true friendship.
- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz
Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Lord Tennyson
Reason and love are sworn enemies
- Pierre Corneille
Economized love is never real love
- Honore de Balzac
A beautiful love story is born with a kiss, but it is poetry that makes it everlasting.
- Anonymous
And I, understanding what you did not say, fell in love with you because you did not say it.
- Guerrini
In love, pleasure should never be hurried.
- Ovidio
Love is like lightening: no one knows where it will strike until it has struck.
- Henri Lacordaire
Whoever loves ... believes in the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love is the noblest frailty of the mind.
- J. Dryden
Love has no age, it is forever being born.
- Anonymous
He who does not see the faults of his beloved as virtues does not love.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Until I loved, life had no beauty; I did not know I lived until I had loved.
- Theodor Korner
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. . . . Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
- Maya Angelou
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
- Margaret Mitchell
