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The Renaissance30 quotes
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602But miserable most, to love unloved?
This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599All 30 quotes →Classical antiquity13 quotes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCLove conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCThese eyes of mine would look on only thee
In that last hour when light shall fail.
Embrace me, dear, in death! Let thy hand be
In my cold fingers pale! — Tibullus · 26 BCLove, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod · 700 BCLove, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles · 442 BCLove distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me
with murderous intent,
in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts
than those of Aphrodite sent
by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child. — Euripides · 428 BCAll 13 quotes →Middle Ages8 quotes
O happy race of mortals, if your hearts are ruled, as is the universe, by Love! — Boethius · 523Where true love is, it showeth; it will not feign. — Christine de Pizan · 1399Love and the gracious heart are a single thing…
One can no more be without the other
Than the reasoning mind without its reason. — Dante Alighieri · 1294Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours. — Heloise · 1132The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long. — Sir Thomas Mallory · 1485All 8 quotes →New Testament Era7 quotes
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — Apostle Paul · 55If I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good. — Apostle Paul · 55Beloved, let us love one another. — 1st John 4:7 · 95This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. — Jesus · 90A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. — Jesus · 90Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90All 7 quotes →Old Testament Era4 quotes
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. — Song of Solomon 3:1 · 965 BCMy beloved is mine, and I am his. — Song of Solomon 2:16 · 965 BCMany waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. — Song of Solomon 8:7 · 1000 BCThou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. — God · 1405 BCAge of Enlightenment3 quotes
With love, you see, even too much is not enough. — Pierre Beaumarchais · 1784But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever. — Robert Burns · 1791Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Ancient World2 quotes
For hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal. — Pali Tipitaka · 100 BCOnly by love can men see me, and know me and come unto me. He who works for me, who loves me, whose End Supreme I am, free from attachment to all things, and with love for all creation, he in truth comes unto me. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCSpanish Golden Age2 quotes
When love is not madness,
it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca · 1637There is no greater glory than love
Nor any greater punishment than jealousy. — Felix Lope de Vega · 1632Colonial America1 quote
In Marriage without love, there will be Love without Marriage. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734Early Christianity1 quote
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. — St. Jerome · 374