Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on love 8 by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LOVE 8

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

Source: Julius Caesar

When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shan

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

Ntozake Shange

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Anna Howard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire us most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)

True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.

Barbara Sher (American author of "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was")

All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Wolfman Jack Smith

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.

Tom Snyder (1936-, American TV personality)

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Robert Southey (1774-1843, British author)

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

John Lancaster Spalding

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903, British philosopher)

All for love, and nothing for reward.

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599, British poet)

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

Love is the beauty of the soul.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

Love, and do what you like.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers of jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by bursts of anger and quarrels.

St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

St. Bernard (1090-1153, French theologian and reformer)

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

St. Bernard (1090-1153, French theologian and reformer)

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome (c.342-420, Croatian Christian ascetic, scholar)

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

St. John of the Cross (1542-1591, Spanish Christian mystic and poet)

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

St. John of the Cross (1542-1591, Spanish Christian mystic and poet)

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)

If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.

Sylvester Stallone (1946-, American actor, writer, director, producer)

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Konstantin Stanislavisky (1863-1968, Russian actor, theatre director, teacher)

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

Bessie A. Stanley

To make the choice for independent survival, the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

Joanna T. Steichen

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

David Steindl-Rast

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Jake Steinfeld (1958-, American bodybuilder)

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Henri B. Stendhal (1783-1842, French writer)

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Henri B. Stendhal (1783-1842, French writer)

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting (1951-, British-born American musician, singer, songwriter, actor)

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Jeanette Winterson (1959-, British author)

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Author Unknown

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971, Russian composer)

There is no force more potent than love.

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971, Russian composer)

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

August J. Strindberg (1849-1912, Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet)

I hate her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference, because it was the other side of love.

August J. Strindberg (1849-1912, Swedish dramatist, novelist, poet)

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Anna Strong

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Janet Erskine Stuart

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha Von Suttner

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)

The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Thomas Szasz (1920-, American psychiatrist)

He only may chastise who loves.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)

Let my love like sunlight surround you, yet give you illumined freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)

We live in the world when we love it.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Johannes Tauler

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667, British churchman, writer)

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933, American poet)

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933, American poet)

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Frank Tebbets

Love is the only gold.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)

Source: Memoriam: 21

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)

Be gentle to all and stem with yourself.

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582, Spanish saint, mystic)

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582, Spanish saint, mystic)

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William M. Thackeray (1811-1863, Indian-born British novelist)

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment.