What Is Love Quotes

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

I am fascinated by this partnership between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. It's magic and I love it.

I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

I realized that all animals, not just dogs and cats and horses, were sentient beings; therefore, I just couldn't say I love animals and then eat them.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.

True love never forces.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Let us try what love will do.

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.

There’s no greater search than that of lost love.

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love.

Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Words of love are works of love.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.