Quotes about love

"My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end."

Malory, Sir Thomas on love   

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"I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on love   

"These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss."

Milton, John on love   

"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"Scratch a lover, and find a foe."

Parker, Dorothy on love
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"An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life."

Prevert, Jacques on love
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"Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing."

Rowland, Helen on love
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"No one worth possessing can be quite possessed."

Teasdale, Sara on love
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"You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination."

Trefusis, Violet on love   

"The one who loves least controls the relationship."

Unknown, Source on love
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"There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."

Wycherley, William on love   

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery."

Arnold, Matthew on love
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"The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love."

Auerbach, Red on love   

"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."

Bolen, Jean Shinoda on love
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"Our first and last love is... self-love."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on love
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"Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself."

Brown, David on love
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"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

Brown, Les on love
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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

Byron, Lord on love   

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."

Chanel, Coco on love
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"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

Chazal, Malcolm De on love
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"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

DiFranco, Ani on love
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"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

Disney, Walt on love
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"A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love   

"Do not wish to be anything except what you are."

Francis De Sales, St. on love
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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

Franklin, Benjamin on love   

"Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!"

James, William on love
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"Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others."

Johnson, Samuel on love   

"Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing."

Kempton, Sally on love   

"Be that self which one truly is."

Kierkegaard, Søren on love
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

Lao-Tzu on love
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"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

Maltz, Maxwell on love
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