Love Quotes

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
– Jean Anouilh
Things are beautiful if you love them.
– Jean Anouilh
I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
– Christina Applegate
I love playing women on the verge.
– Christina Applegate
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Sure, for all our blindness; secure, for all our helplessness; strong, for all our weakness; gaily in love, for all the pressures on our hearts.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
The things that we love tell us what we are.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
– Louis Aragon
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
– Diane Arbus
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
– Hannah Arendt
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
– Matthew Arnold
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
– Matthew Arnold
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
– George Arnold
I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.
– Beatrice Arthur
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
– W. H. Auden
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
– W. H. Auden
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
– Red Auerbach
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
– Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
– Saint Augustine
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
– Saint Augustine
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
– Jane Austen
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
– Jane Austen
I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs, and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, so that we might be beheaded there. I believe that our Lord had given us courage enough even at that tender age, if only we could have seen a way. But our parents seemed to us a very great hindrance.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
– Dan Aykroyd
I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
– Victoria Adams
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
– Eden Ahbez
I am marrying her because I love her.
– Akihito
Love each other or die.
– Mitch Albom
I paint because I love to cut mats.
– Arthur Alexander
I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.
– Krista Allen
Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
– Karen Allen
I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
– Karen Allen
Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
– Karen Allen
Bring water, bring wine, boy! Bring flowering garlands to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may try a bout with love.
– Anacreon
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
– Anacreon
I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
– Anacreon
I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.
– Elena Anaya
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
– Walter Anderson
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
– Julie Andrews
Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.
– Adam Ant
A man can hide all things, excepting twain - That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
– Antiphanes
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
– Aharon Appelfeld
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
– Richard Bach
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
– Sir Francis Bacon
That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
– Joan Baez
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
– Pearl Bailey
A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we must celebrate.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
– Russell Baker
I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.
– Kenny Baker
I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.
– Colin Baker
I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!
– Rick Baker
I went into show business because I love to work with people, and what I enjoy most about acting is rehearsing and getting to know people and their talents, forming relationships. Working in this business, barriers drop and you get into people real quickly.
– Scott Bakula
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
– Bill Balance
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
– James A. Baldwin
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
– James A. Baldwin
Love 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
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
– James A. Baldwin
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
– James A. Baldwin
I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.
– Alec Baldwin
My two best pieces would have to be Ghosts of Mississippi and my new film Bookworm. Bookworm was special for me to do because I really idolize the writings of Mamet. Also, I got to work with Tony Hopkins, and I really love Tony.
– Alec Baldwin
You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people.
– Stephen Baldwin
I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.
– William Baldwin
I've been involved with the Creative Coalition since shortly after the founding... I love to really roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty on any level when it comes to these sorts of issues... on a grass roots level or a clerical level. I love to educate myself and others and help raise awareness on important issues.
– William Baldwin
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
– Honore de Balzac
The more you judge, the less you love.
– Honore de Balzac
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
– Honore de Balzac
I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.
– Antonio Banderas
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
– Antonio Banderas
To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. There's too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. It's just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.
– Antonio Banderas
Love that is not madness is not love.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I don't think when I make love.
– Brigitte Bardot
I love New York City; I've got a gun.
– Charles Barkley
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
– John Perry Barlow
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
– Djuna Barnes
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
– James M. Barrie
I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
– Fantasia Barrino
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
– Ethel Barrymore
I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.
– Drew Barrymore
I think I have a love for TV hosts. I can't help it. Ted Koppel was my first crush when I was three. Then I was in love with David Letterman. He's my sweetheart. But now I've got my Tom.
– Drew Barrymore
I think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it.
– Drew Barrymore
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
– Drew Barrymore
I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.
– Drew Barrymore
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
– Drew Barrymore
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
– Drew Barrymore
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
– Bruce Barton
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
– Jacques Barzun
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
– Georges Bataille
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
– Georges Bataille
I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.
– Alan Bates
I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
– Alan Bates
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
– Charles Baudelaire