Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

1.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

2.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

3.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

4.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

6.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

7.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

8.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

9.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

10.

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

Dane, Frank

11.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

14.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

15.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

16.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

18.

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

19.

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

20.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

21.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

22.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

23.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

25.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

29.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

30.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

31.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

32.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

33.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

34.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

35.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

36.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

38.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

41.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

42.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

44.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

45.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

46.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

47.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

48.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

49.

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

Bertrand Russell

50.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.