What Is Love Quotes

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

One partner is always more in love than the other.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

I love President Bush. I think it's great we have a president who always looks like he's looking directly into the sun.

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music, the music people have always made.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.

I'm becoming the street. Who are you in love with? me? Straight against the light I cross.

I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

I love it--I just love it.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

A man may welcome his beloved with circumstance, but a woman's love and her concern for his well-being are discreet.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

I love collaborating.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.