Sayings about Love:

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang, even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
Love is not to be reason’d down, or lost
In high ambition or a thirst of greatness.
Joseph Addison
The aspects which procure love are not gazings, but sudden glances and dartings of the eye.
Francis Bacon
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with only a single thread.
Francis Bacon
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern, the love of our neighbour the portraiture.
Francis Bacon
There be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy.
Francis Bacon
There is in man’s nature a secret inclination and motion towards the love of others, which, if it be not spent upon one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable.
Francis Bacon
This sublime love, being, by an intimate conjunction with its object, thoroughly refined from all base dross of selfishness and interest, nobly begets a perfect submission of our wills to the will of God.
Robert Boyle
Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
Robert Boyle
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite,—of the ideal made real.
Thomas Carlyle
Banish that fear; my flame can never waste,
For love sincere refines upon the taste.
Colley Cibber
Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
Charles Caleb Colton
If I were ever in love again (which is a great passion, and therefore I hope I have done with it), it would be, I think, with prettiness, rather than with majestical beauty.
Abraham Cowley
There is such a thing as keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance.
Thomas De Quincey
Love, a penurious god, very niggardly of his opportunities, must be watched like a hard-hearted treasurer.
John Dryden
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits.
Erasmus
Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself.
Erasmus
Love is of two sorts, of friendship and of desire; the one betwixt friends, the other betwixt lovers; the one a rational, the other a sensitive love: so our love of God consists of two parts, as esteeming of God, and desiring of him.
Henry Hammond
As the will doth now work upon that object by desire, which is motion towards the end, as yet unobtained; so likewise upon the same hereafter received, it shall work also by love.
Richard Hooker
As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften, nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it throws a mist before the eyes on’t.
Roger L’Estrange
To love our neighbour as ourself is such a fundamental truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
John Locke
Tell a man passionately in love that he is jilted, bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, and it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.
John Locke
Oh, there is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love—the first fluttering of its silken wings—the first rising sound and breath of that wind which is so soon to sweep through the soul, to purify or to destroy!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love and enmity, aversation and fear, are notable whetters and quickeners of the spirit of life in all animals.
Sir Thomas More
Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure.
Alexander Pope
As the obtaining the love of valuable men is the happiest end of this life, so the next felicity is to get rid of fools and scoundrels.
Alexander Pope
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
Alexander Pope
O death, all eloquent! you only prove
What dust we doat on, when ’tis man we love.
Alexander Pope
Love requires not so much proofs, as expressions, of Love. Love demands little else than the power to feel and to requite love.
Jean Paul F. Richter
Love one human being purely and warmly, and you will love all. The heart in this heaven, like the wandering sun, sees nothing, from the dewdrop to the ocean, but a mirror which it warms and fills.
Jean Paul F. Richter
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual movement: so soon as it ceases to hope and fear, it ceases to exist.
François, duc de La Rochefoucauld
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove—
By firm resolve to conquer love!
Sir Walter Scott
There is a beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.
William Shakespeare
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou would’st as soon go kindle fire with snow,
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shews all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away!
William Shakespeare
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds—
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.
William Shakespeare
Fie, fie! how wayward is this foolish love,
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse,
And presently all humbled, kiss the rod!
William Shakespeare
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
William Shakespeare
How to know a man in love—your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
William Shakespeare
All hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
Stony limits cannot hold love out;
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Carrying thus in one person the only two bands of good-will, loveliness and lovingness.
Sir Philip Sidney
Love is better than spectacles to make everything seem great.
Sir Philip Sidney
The soul may sooner leave off to subsist than to love; and, like the vine, it withers and dies if it has nothing to embrace.
Robert South
An invisible hand from heaven mingles hearts and souls by strange, secret, and unaccountable conjunctions.
Robert South
Love is like a painter, who in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of the face.
Robert South
True he it said, whatever man it said,
That love with gall and honey doth abound;
But if the one be with the other weighed,
For every dram of honey therein found
A pound of gall doth over it redound.
Edmund Spenser
If I will obey the gospel, no distance of place, no strangeness of country, can make any man a stranger to me.
Thomas Sprat
It is confessed that love changed often doth nothing; nay, it is nothing; for love where it is kept fixed to its first object, though it burn not, yet it warms and cherishes, so as it needs no transplantation or change of soil to make it fruitful.
Sir John Suckling
There can but two things create love, perfection and usefulness; to which answer on our part, 1. Admiration, and 2. Desire: and both these are centred in love.
Jeremy Taylor
Consider the immensity of the divine love, expressed in all the emanations of his providence; in his creation, in his consecration of us.
Jeremy Taylor
The experience of those profitable emanations from God most commonly are the first motive of our love; but when we once have tasted his goodness we love the spring for its own excellency; passing from considering ourselves to an union with God.
Jeremy Taylor
The love of God makes a man chaste without the laborious acts of fasting and exterior disciplines: he reaches at glory without any other arms than those of love.
Jeremy Taylor
Anything that is apt to disturb the world, and to alienate the affections of men from one another,… is either expressly, or by clear consequence and deduction, forbidden in the New Testament.
John Tillotson
Nothing is difficult to love: it will make a man cross his own inclinations to pleasure them whom he loves.
John Tillotson
No man can think it grievous who considers the pleasures and sweetness of love, and the glorious victory of overcoming evil with good, and then compares these with the restless torment and perpetual tumults of a malicious and revengeful spirit.
John Tillotson
Lovers are in rapture at the name of their fair idol; they lavish out all their incense upon that shrine, and cannot bear the thought of admitting a blemish therein.
Dr. Isaac Watts
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Authors by sayings about love: Joseph Addison, Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Thomas Carlyle, Colley Cibber, Charles Caleb Colton, Abraham Cowley, Thomas De Quincey, John Dryden, Erasmus, Henry Hammond, Richard Hooker, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Roger L’Estrange, John Locke, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Thomas More, Alexander Pope, Jean Paul F. Richter, François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert South, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Sprat, Sir John Suckling, Jeremy Taylor, John Tillotson, Dr. Isaac Watts.
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