The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
Love is a serious mental disease.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Where love is, there God is also.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
War is like love it always finds a way.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Love conquers all.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
