Love Quotes

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
– Charles Baudelaire
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
– Jean Baudrillard
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
– Jean Baudrillard
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
– Jean Baudrillard
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
– Jean Baudrillard
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
– Jean Baudrillard
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
– Francis Beaumont
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
– Thomas Beecham
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
– Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
– Brendan Behan
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
– Aphra Behn
From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.
– Hilaire Belloc
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hilaire Belloc
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
– Saul Bellow
I am pretty sure if the TV series 'Seinfeld' was on around when Maslow was writing this hierarchy of needs theory, not missing an episode would have made it somewhere between safety and love.
– Bo Bennett
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
– Bo Bennett
Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
– Edgar Bergen
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
– John Berger
God bless America, land that I love; stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above.
– Irving Berlin
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
– Georges Bernanos
They [black and white musicians] jived between each other. All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
– Chuck Berry
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
– Ambrose Bierce
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
– Ambrose Bierce
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
– Josh Billings
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
– Josh Billings
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
– Josh Billings
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
– Jim Bishop
He spoke of love and the Supreme Court.
– Elizabeth Black
You're asking me to choose between two children, the one that pays more and the one that I secretly love more. With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out; with the music, there's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
– Jack Black
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
– Karen Black
I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
– Karen Black
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
– Karen Black
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
– William Blake
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
– William Blake
I love a man who can wear my underwear.
– Yasmine Bleeth
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
– Yasmine Bleeth
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
– George Borrow
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
– Alain de Botton
I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.
– Alain de Botton
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
Our first and last love is self-love.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
– Barbara Boxer
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.
– Barbara Boxer
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.
– Barbara Boxer
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
– Ray Bradbury
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
– Ray Bradbury
For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
– Bill Bradley
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
– Michelle Branch
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad.
– Michelle Branch
It's just busier and busier every day, but I don't really notice it. I get up every day and do what I love, so I can't complain. It's my dream job.
– Michelle Branch
There are so many younger acts. It's hard to distinguish the differences between them all. I don't want people to hear the record and go, 'Can you believe she's only 18?' I want them to say, 'Wow, this is a well-written song with good chord changes.' It's better if you hear the record and love it, than find out I'm 18.
– Michelle Branch
He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?
– Eva Braun
War is like love; it always finds a way.
– Bertolt Brecht
Tennessee is full of families - rich and poor - who manage to achieve balance. They use the resources they have, and add faith in God, love and commitment to each other, hard work and a focus on their children.These are the real families, the families that work, the families that shine. And that balance is the lesson for us.
– Phil Bredesen
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
– Gerald Brenan
When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.
– Michael Bridge
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
– Robert Bridges
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
– Robert Bridges
When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
– Robert Bridges
I love to hear the thunder, watch the lightning when it lights up the sky. You know it makes me feel good. Well I love a rainy night, it's such a beautiful sight. I love to feel the rain on my face, to taste the rain on my lips in the moonlight shadow. Although those goddamn mudslides put me right off, I can tell you.
– Chris A. Bridges
Sometimes, you want to make tender love, sometimes you're out to break some sort of heroic record, sometimes, as Hanne Blank once said, you just want to get thrown on the couch and get pounded like a cheap steak.
– Chris A. Bridges
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
– Charlotte Bronte
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
– Emily Bronte
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
– Emily Bronte
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
– Rupert Brooke
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
– Anita Brookner
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
– Anita Brookner
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
– Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
– Anita Brookner
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
– Rita Mae Brown
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
– Rita Mae Brown
I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.
– Ray Brown
And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
– Lew Brown
As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.
– David M. Brown
Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!
– Robert Browning
Love is energy of life.
– Robert Browning
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
– Robert Browning
O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird and all a wonder and a wild desire.
– Robert Browning
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
– Anatole Broyard
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
– Jack Bruce
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
– Jean de la Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, and where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
– William C. Bryant
Love alone could waken love.
– Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops.
– Pearl S. Buck
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
– Pearl S. Buck
We played a lot of semi-biker bars. We'd go in and play three sets of our original stuff and, more than anything else, we had to beat 'em over the head with the beat becuase, if they didn 't know who you were, they didn't want to hear no love songs. We've never been beaten up at a club but boy, have we been threatened!
– Peter Buck
We love your adherence to democratic principles.
– William F. Buckley, Jr.
I feel afraid and I call your name, I love your voice and your dance insane, I hear your words and I know your pain.
– Jeff Buckley
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.
– Jeff Buckley
Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.
– Jeff Buckley
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
– Buddha