The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad
They do not love that do not show their love.
Marcel Achard
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
Love begins with love.
Jean de La Bruyere
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Philip Chesterfield
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean de La Bruyere
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
Love and work have the virtues of making a man pretty indifferent to anything else.
Honore de Balzac
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where there`s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Helen Rowland
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
William Somerset Maugham
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler
When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
Blaise Pascal
A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
Helen Rowland
The qualities, which a man seeks in his beloved, are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.
Plato
Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest.
Helen Rowland
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Edgar Watson Howe
Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is impossible to love and be wise.
Francis Bacon
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind, which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
Miguel de Cervantes
Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty.
Germaine de Stael
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Henry Louis Mencken
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Henry Louis Mencken
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved.
George Eliot
The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.
Jean de La Bruyere
In the first woman we love, we love everything. Growing older, we love the woman only.
Honore de Balzac
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de La Bruyere
We never love heartily but once, and that is the first time we love.
Jean de La Bruyere
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No one loves the man whom he fears.
Aristotle
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Jules Renard
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Saving love doesn`t bring any interest.
Mae West
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie
Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best.
Woody Allen
Love is what you make it and who you make it with.
Mae West
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.
Honore de Balzac
In love, somehow, a man`s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
Helen Rowland
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
Oscar Wilde
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
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
God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.
Alphonse de Lamartine
A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.
Honore de Balzac
A grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
Oscar Wilde
The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
Buddha
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
Anatole France
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean de La Bruyere
In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West
We don`t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Those who have loved have little relish for friendship. The devotee of strong drink finds wine insipid.
Alexandre Dumas
But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Henry Louis Mencken
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
George Orwell
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Honore de Balzac
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
Love is the answer. But while you`re waiting for the answer, sex brings up some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in what we excite.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
Love, as a relation between men and women, was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
Bertrand Russell
Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not, none can simulate it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
That`s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de La Bruyere
What a miserable world! Trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.
Joseph de Maistre
Love, which is only an episode in the life of man, is the entire history of woman`s life.
Germaine de Stael
Where there is love there is no question.
Albert Einstein
Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Philip Chesterfield
Love doesn`t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one`s neighbor.
Eric Hoffer
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more you judge, the less you love.
Honore de Balzac
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
No cord or cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Robert Burton
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac
Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine de Stael
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
Marcel Achard
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts such as falling in love at first sight.
Rudyard Kipling
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity, in a girl it is boldness. The two sexes have a tendency to approach, and each assumes the qualities of the other.
Victor Hugo
He who cannot feel friendship is alike incapable of love. Let a woman beware of the man who owns that he loves no one but herself.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
Stendhal
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Joseph Joubert
Love knows nothing of modesty.
Honore de Balzac
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Lovers become biographers.
Irwin Shaw
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Jean de La Bruyere