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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 · 1597 My 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 · 1609 Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593 Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare · 1600 If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die. — William Shakespeare · 1602 But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise. — William Shakespeare · 1599 All 27 quotes →

Oscar Wilde5 quotes

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. — Oscar Wilde · 1895 It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. — Oscar Wilde · 1891 There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890 Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890 What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. — Oscar Wilde · 1888

William Blake5 quotes

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. — William Blake · 1794 Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin'd, Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd, And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792 Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite. — William Blake · 1794 Never pain to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently invisibly — William Blake · 1807 Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears - Ah, she doth depart. — William Blake · 1792

Charles Dickens4 quotes

I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. — Charles Dickens · 1861 I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens · 1861 Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861 Constancy in love is a good thing, but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens · 1852

Apostle Paul3 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 · 55 If 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 · 55 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. — Apostle Paul · 55

Hermann Hesse3 quotes

Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse · 1904 Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. — Hermann Hesse · 1919 As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair. — Hermann Hesse · 1927

Jesus3 quotes

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. — Jesus · 90 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another. — Jesus · 90 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — Jesus · 90

Lord Byron3 quotes

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819 Alas! the love of women! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819 Love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine— A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour, Down to a very homely household savour. — Lord Byron · 1821

W.B. Yeats3 quotes

A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love. — W.B. Yeats · 1893 Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1928 Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. — W.B. Yeats · 1910

W.H. Auden3 quotes

If equal affection cannot be let the more loving one be me. — W.H. Auden · 1957 He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. — W.H. Auden · 1936 Like love we don't know where or why Like love can't compel or fly Like love we often weep Like love we seldom keep — W.H. Auden · 1939

Alfred Tennyson2 quotes

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850 Love is and was my Lord and King. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850

Catullus2 quotes

I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony. — Catullus · 51 BC It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. — Catullus · 54 BC

Dante Alighieri2 quotes

Love 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 · 1294 Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri · 1294

Edgar Allan Poe2 quotes

We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849 I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849

Elizabeth Barrett Browning2 quotes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850 I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850

Emily Bronte2 quotes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847 Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! — Emily Bronte · 1847

Fred Rogers2 quotes

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Heloise2 quotes

God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours. — Heloise · 1132 My heart was not in me but with you, and now, even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere. — Heloise · 1132

Ira Gershwin2 quotes

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, They're only made of clay, But our love is here to stay. — Ira Gershwin · 1938 Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin · 1937

Jean Anouilh2 quotes

There is love, of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh · 1948 You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself! — Jean Anouilh · 1948

Jean de La Bruyere2 quotes

We love well only once, the first time. The loves which follow are less involuntary. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688 Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love. — Jean de La Bruyere · 1688

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2 quotes

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774 Only the soul that loves is happy. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1788

John Milton2 quotes

Flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667 What thou art is mine; Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667

Jons2 quotes

If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its imperfection. — Jons · 1957 Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies. — Jons · 1957

Mark Twain2 quotes

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children. — Mark Twain · 1894 No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain · 1894

Milan Kundera2 quotes

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera · 1984 The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. — Milan Kundera · 1984

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy2 quotes

Love comes from blindness, Friendship comes from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665 Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665

Sam (Love Actually)2 quotes

Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003 But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end. — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003

The Beatles2 quotes

All you need is love. — The Beatles · 1967 And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make. — The Beatles · 1969

W. Somerset Maugham2 quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915 The tragedy of love is indifference. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921

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