Famous Love Quotes

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without
expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person
and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EuripidesLove does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love
is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by
imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -
it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to
transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any
material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved,
I did not say so.
David Grayson

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an
illusion.
Javan

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and
greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love
says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet
remain two.
Erich Fromm

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less
difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to
love.
Miguel de Unamuno

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in
love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the
beginning of love.
Mother Teresa

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

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

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus
one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than
because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it.
I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny
existence.
Theodore Dreiser

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there
can be no more hurt, only more love.
Daphne Rae

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's
the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you
fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the
hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful
person in the world.
Emmet Fox

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
Richard Bach

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It
was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger
than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym

The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac

What is really beautiful must always be true.
Stendhal

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I drink to make other people interesting.
George Jean Nathan

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is
that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special
person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird
religious cult.
Rita Rudner

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of
infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately
important.
C. S. Lewis

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so
much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking
events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all
the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton