Love Quotes

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
– Confucius
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
– William Congreve
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
– William Congreve
I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
– Billy Connolly
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
– Billy Connolly
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
– Joseph Conrad
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
– Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
– Joseph Conrad
I have a boyfriend for a change! To me everything's nicer if you feel like you're in love. It's better. I probably have more energy for what we do. I'm probably more relaxed. He brings me back to being Andrea Corr, in Dundalk, in my garden.
– Andrea Corr
I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
– Andrea Corr
I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about.
– Andrea Corr
I really love singing.
– Andrea Corr
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
– Jon Corzine
Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
– Ann Coulter
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
– William Cowper
I love rock with hole.
– Daniel Craig
I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.
– Joan Crawford
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
– Joan Crawford
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
– Joan Crawford
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
– Quentin Crisp
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
– Tom Cruise
I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.
– Tom Cruise
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
– Ice Cube
When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?
– Mario Cuomo
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
– James Branch Cabell
I'm going to do whatever it takes to be able to affect people the same way I've been affected by the music I love.
– Ryan Cabrera
Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.
– Sammy Cahn
There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
– Patrick Campbell
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
– Andreas Capellanus
I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy.
– Linda Cardellini
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
– Eric Carr
When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything.
– Eric Carr
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
– Jim Carrey
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
– Jonathan Carroll
I love long hair. A year ago I was thinking about maybe cutting it, but I don't know. I never wanna cut it now. Never.
– Angel Carter
I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.
– Emma Caulfield
Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.
– Aime Cesaire
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Allan K. Chalmers
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
– Nicolas Chamfort
At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
– Tracy Chapman
Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
– Emile Chartier
Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.
– Alex Chilton
Man, I love coming home. St. Louis is actually hard to capture.
– Chingy
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.
– Rufus Choate
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
– Frank Churchill
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second.
– Eleanor Clark
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
– Mary Higgins Clark
When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.
– John Clarke
In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
– Francis X. Clines
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
– Daniel Clowes
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
– Lenore Coffee
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
– Natalie Cole
A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.
– Ronald Colman
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.
– Joe Conason
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
– Michael Connelly
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
– Sean Connery
Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.
– Ralph Connor
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
– Jimmy Connors
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
– Alice Cooper
Love one another as much as you can and pray it is part of His master plan.
– D. C. Cooper
I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
– Sofia Coppola
Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
– Abraham Cowley
I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedimes- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'
– Courteney Cox
Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it.
– Brian Cramer
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
– Harry Crews
A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
– Abraham Crowley
I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.
– Penelope Cruz
I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.
– Celia Cruz
Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.
– Lorraine Lee Cudmore
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
– Catie Curtis
The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.
– Marquis De Custine
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
– Salvador Dali
Love is as strict as acting. If you want to love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are no other choices.
– Tyne Daly
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
– Samuel Daniel
Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair, / Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny.
– Samuel Daniel
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
– Samuel Daniel
Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
– Samuel Daniel
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
– Alvin Dark
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
– Robertson Davies
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.
– Robertson Davies
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
– Robertson Davies
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
– Robertson Davies
I love playing live now more than ever..I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.
– Dave Davies
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
– Dave Davies
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
– Bette Davis
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
– Bette Davis
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
– Bette Davis
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
– Bette Davis
Hugging closes the door to hate. Kissing opens the door to love.
– Tony Davis
I'm a hustler. I'm a smartass, but I love people.
– Richard Dawson
There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
– Richard Dawson
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
– Dorothy Day
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
– Julie Delpy