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LOVE - PAGE 1 (A-L)

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see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links
see "HAPPINESS" for other related links
see "KINDNESS" for other related links


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My ex-husband and I fell in love at first sight.
Maybe I should have taken a second look.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935— )
American actor, screenwriter, and director.
Film dialogue, _Crimes & Misdemeanors_ [1989],
spoken by Mia Farrow as Holly Reed.


Oh, now there's only one kind of love that lasts.
That's unrequited love. It stays with you forever.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935— )
American actor, screenwriter, and director

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Sex is a momentary itch,
Love never lets you go.
--Sir Kingsley Amis (1922—1995)
English novelist, poet, critic, and father of Martin Amis

A man can hide all things excepting twain —
That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
--Antiphanes (fl. early 4th cent. B.C.)
Greek comic poet.

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no
common denominator, but among those whom I love,
I can: all of them make me laugh.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters.


I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
--W.H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907—1973)
English-born poet and man of letters,
"As I Walked Out One Evening" [1940]

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I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
--Philip James Bailey (1816—1902)
English poet.
_Festus_ [1839]

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and
flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near
you; in the gladdest days and the darkest nights...always,
always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it
shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing
temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not
mourn me dead: think I am gone and wait for me, for
we shall meet again.
--Major Sullivan Ballou (1827—1861)
Union Army; killed during the First Battle of Bull Run,
letter to his wife written 7 days before he was killed.

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 out virtues.
--Honorι de Balzac (1799—1850)
French journalist and writer.

They say falling in love is wonderful,
It's wonderful, so they say.
--Irving Berlin (1888—1989)
American songwriter.
"Falling in Love", (song)
In the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" [1946].

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.
--Bible
"John" 15:13


Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs.
--Bible
"Corinthians" 13:4-5 NIV


Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres. Love never fails.
--Bible
"Corinthians" 13:6-8 NIV

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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}.

Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.

One simple, passionate kiss
Can alter earth for ever.
--Laurence Binyon (1869—1943)
English poet.
"Westward", lines 173-4

There's a vaporish maiden in Harrison
Who longed for the love of a Saracen,
But she had to confine her
Intent to a Shriner,
Who suffers, I fear, by comparison.
--Morris Bishop (1893—1973)
American linguist and writer of light verse.

Please fence me in baby the world's too big
out here and I don't like it without you.
--Humphrey Bogart (1899—1957)
American actor.
Telegram to Lauren Bacall;
in Lauren Bacall's _All By Myself_ [1978].

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806—1861)
English poet.
_Sonnets from the Portuguese_, 43 [1850]

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made.
--Robert Browning (1812—1889)
English poet.
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" [1864]

But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love for ever.
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
From "Ae Fond Kiss."

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
--Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (1925—1998)
American professor and author of inspirational books.


Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your
energy and keep you from love.
--Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (1925—1998)
American professor and author of inspirational books.

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.
--Roger Bussy-Rabutin (1618—1693)
French soldier and poet.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
--Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (1788—1824)
English Romantic poet and satirist.
_Don Juan_ [1818—1824]

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Be my love
For no one else can end this yearning
This need that you and you alone create
Just fill my arms
The way you've filled my dreams
The dreams that you inspire
With every sweet desire

Be my love
And with your kisses set me burning
One kiss is all I need to seal my fate
And hand in hand
We'll find love's promised land
There'll be no one but you for me
Eternally
If you will be my love

--Sammy Cahn (1913—1993)
American songwriter.
"Be My Love"
(Music by Nicholas Brodszky)

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When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty,
it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
--Lenore Coffee (1897—1984)
American screenwriter.
_Storyline; Recollections of a Hollywood Screenwriter_ [1973]

Be still, my beating heart, be still!
--Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861—1907)
English poet.
"All One" [1910]

Friendship often ends in love;
but love in friendship - never.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
In James Wood
_Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and
Modern English and Foreign Sources_, p. 108 [1899].

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
--William Congreve (1670—1729)
English dramatist.
"The Mourning Bride" [1697]

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your
hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
--Joan Crawford [Lucille Fay LeSueur] (1904—1977)
American actress.

Love. Everyone says that looks don't matter, age
doesn't matter. But I never met a girl yet who
has fallen in love with an ugly old man who's
broke.
--Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen]
(1921—2004) American comedian.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
--Thomas Dekker (c. 1572—1632)
English dramatist and writter of prose
pamphlets of London life.

The magic of first love is our
ignorance that it can ever end.
--Benjamin Disraeli (1804—1881)
British Tory statesman, novelist, and
Prime Minister [1868, 1874—1880].
_Henrietta Temple_ [1837]

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
--John Donne (1572—1631)
English poet and dean of St. Paul's [1621—1631].
_Elegies_ "The Anagram" (c. 1595]


Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
--John Donne (1572-1631)
English poet and dean of St. Paul's [1621—1631].
_Songs and Sonnets_ "The Bait" [1611]

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At long last I am able to say a few words of my own. I have never
wanted to withhold anything, but until now it has not been
constitutionally possible for me to speak.

A few hours ago I discharged my last duty as King and Emperor, and
now that I have been succeeded by my brother, The Duke of York,
my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him. This I do
with all my heart.

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the
Throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did
not forget the country or the Empire which as Prince of Wales, and
lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. But you
must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to
carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties
as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the
woman I love.

--Edward VIII (1894—1972)
King [1936], afterwards, the Duke of Windsor.
Radio broadcast following his abdication [11 December 1936].

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Young love-making that gossamer web! Even the points it clings
to the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung are
scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of fingertips, meetings
of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest
changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is
made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings
of one life towards another, visions of completeness,
indefinite trust.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.
_Middlemarch_ [1871-1872]


Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who
plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances
that it all the while disbelieves.
--George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] (1819—1880)
English novelist.

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Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
--Desiderius Erasmus (1469—1536)
Dutch humanist and theologian.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things:
To be in bed and sleep not,
To want for one who comes not,
To try to please and please not.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940)
American novelist.
_Notebooks_ [1978]

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
--Erich Fromm (1900—1980)
American philosopher and psychologist.
_The Art of Loving_ [1956]

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have
to deserve your father's. He's more particular.
--Robert Frost (1874—1963)
American poet.
(Interview, _Writers at Work: Second Series_ [1963])

Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes
you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your
heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess
you up. You build up all these defences. You build up this
whole armour, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then
one stupid person, no different from any other stupid
person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a
piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something
dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then
your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages.
It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you
crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe
we should just be friends" or "how very perceptive"
turns into a glass splinter working its way into your
heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just
in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real
gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.
--Neil Gaiman (1960— )
English science fiction author.

The law of love could be best understood and learned
through little children.
--Mohandas K. Gandhii (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.
(In Richard Attenborough's _The Words of Gandhi_ [1982], "Daily Life".)

Harris, I am not well; pray get me a
glass of brandy.
--King George IV (1762—1830)
King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland [1820—1830].
(On first seeing his future wife, Caroline of Brunswick.)

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Embrace me,
My sweet embraceable you.
Embrace me,
You irreplaceable you.
Just one look at you--my heart grew tipsy in me;
You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.
I love all
The many charms about you;
Above all,
I want my arms about you.
Don't be a naughty baby,
Come to papa--come to papa--do!
My sweet embraceable you.
--George Gershwin (1898—1937) and Ira Gershwin (1896—1983).
'Embraceable You' [1930 song], in _Girl Crazy_


In time the rockies may crumble,
Gibraltar may tumble,
They're only made of clay,
But, our love is here to stay.
--Ira Gershwin (1896—1983)
American songwriter.
[1938 song w/music by George Gershwin]


[...] They're writing songs of love,
But not for me;
A lucky star's above,
But not for me.
With love to lead the way,
I've found more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play
Could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall
And get that way;
Heigh hot Alas! and al-
So lackaday!
Love ain't done right by Nell;
However-what the hell!
I guess he's not for me.

Refrain 2

He's knocking on a door,
But not for me;
He'll plan a two by four,
But not for me.
I've heard that love's a game;
I'm puzzled, just the same -
Was I the moth or flame ... ?
I'm all at sea.
It started off so swell,
This "Let's Pretend";
It all began so well;
But what an end!
The climax of a plot
Should be the marriage knot,
But there's no knot for me.

--Ira Gershwin (1896—1983)
American songwriter.
"But Not For Me" [1930 song]
from the show _Girl Crazy_
(music by George Gershwin.)

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion
of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then
suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At
night, the ice weasels come.
--Matt Groening (1954— )
American cartoonist, creator of "The Simpsons."

What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone--
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
--Friedrich Halm (1806—1871)
German dramatist.
"Der Sohn der Wildnis" [1842]

Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly
I gotta love one man till I die,
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine.
--Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960)
American songwriter.
"Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine" (song)
In the musical "Show Boat" [1927].

Love is a series
Of darlings and dearies
Of honeys and sweeties
And sugared entreaties
Of moonings and spoonings
And cooings and billings
All tempered, of course,
By occasional killings.
--E.Y. "Yip" Harburg (1896—1981)
American songwriter.

Love causes more pain than pleasure. Pleasure is only
illusory. Reason would command us to avoid love, if it
were not for the fatal sexual impulse - therefore it
were best to be castrated.
--Karl von Hartmann (1842—1906)
German metaphysical philosopher.
_Philosophe des Unbewursten_ [1869]

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to
the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they
are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.

I will show you a love potion without drug or herb,
or any witch's spell; if you wish to be loved, love.
--Hecato (6th century BC)
Greek Stoic philosopher, _Fragments_

Every man as he loveth, quoth the good man
when he kissed the cow.
--John Heywood (1497—1580)
English playwright.
_Dialogue of Proverbs_ [1546]

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which,
on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the
love of children. No circumstance can render this world
wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.
--Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823—1911)
American abolitionist and writer.

Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never
have survived to eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years.
Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding the
rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring where
from I have drawn the words. She is the poem of
my life.
--attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841—1935)
Justice of the United States Supreme Court,
legal historian, and philosopher.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that
of cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal
longer.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ [1860]

Who hath not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair.
--Ellen C. Howarth [aka Clementine] (1827—1899)
American poet.
_'Tis but a Little Faded Flower_

I'll believe it when girls of twenty with money
marry male paupers, turned sixty.
--Elbert Hubbard (1859—1915)
American editor, publisher, and author who
died in the sinking of the "Lusitania."
_The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923]

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Just because I loves you--
That's de reason why
Ma soul is full of color
Like the wings of a butterfly.

Just because I loves you
That's de reason why
My heart's a fluttering aspen leaf
When you pass by.

--Langston Hughes (1902—1967)
American writer and poet.
"Reasons Why" (complete poem) [1922]

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Misιrables_ [1862], bk V, ch. 4


I met in the street a very poor young man who
was in love. His hat was old, his coat was
threadbare--there were holes at his elbows;
the water passed through his shoes and the
stars through his soul.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.
_Les Miserables_ [1862], "Saint Denis"

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Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.
--Moses Ibn Ezra (1060?—1138?)
Spanish philosopher and poet.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where
power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is
the shadow of the other.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875—1961)
Swiss psychologist.
_The Psychology of the Unconscious_ [1943]

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It had to be you,
It had to be you,
I wandered around
And finally found
The somebody who
Could make me be true,
Could make me blue,
And even be glad
Just to be sad,
Thinking of you.
Some others I've seen
Might never be mean,
Might never be cross
Or try to be boss,
But they wouldn't do.
For nobody else
Gave me a thrill,
With all your faults
I love you still,
It had to be you,
Wonderful you,
It had to be you.

--Gus Kahn (1886—1941)
German-born American songwriter."It Had To Be You" [1924 song]
(music by Isham Jones.)

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But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he
who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.
--Sφren Kierkegaard (1813—1855)
Danish philosopher.

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A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest
harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.
--Jean de La Bruyθre (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.


We perceive when love begins and when it declines
by our embarrassment when alone together.
--Jean de La Bruyθre (1645—1696)
French essayist and moralist.

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love
where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.
_Maxims_ [1665]


Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
--Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (1613—1680)
French classical author.

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And he give her a look that you could pour on a waffle.
--Ring Lardner [Ringgold Wilmer Lardner]
(1885—1933)
American writer and satirist.
"The Big Town"

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Freddy:

I have often walked down this street before;
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before.
All at once am I
Several stories high.
Knowing I'm on the street where you live.
Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of ev'ry door?
No, it's just on the street where you live!
And oh! The towering feeling
Just to know somehow you are near.
The overpowering feeling
That any second you may suddenly appear!
People stop and stare. They don't bother me.
For there's no where else on earth that I would rather be.
Let the time go by,
I won't care if I
Can be here on the street where you live.

--Alan Jay Lerner (1918—1986)
American playwright and lyricist.
(music by Frederick Loewe)
"On the Street Where You Live"
from the 1956 play "My Fair Lady"

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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love"
your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as
we do this we find one of the great secrets.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone,
you will presently come to love him. If you
injure someone you dislike, you will find
yourself disliking him more. If you do him a
good turn, you will find yourself disliking
him less.

--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_Mere Christianity_ [1952], Book 3, Chapter 9


Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly
broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact
you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it
carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid
all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or
coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe,
dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not
be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.

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What is love?...It is the morning and the evening star.
--Sinclair Lewis (1885—1951)
American novelist and playwright.
_Elmer Gantry_ [1927]

He who is in love with himself has at least this
advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals
in his love.
--Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742—1799)
German scientist and drama critic.

Him that I love, I wish to be
Free--
Even from me.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906—2001)
American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh.
"Even—" _The Unicorn and Other Poems_

The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics,
is not self-sustaining; it endures when the lovers
love many things together, and not merely each
other.
--Walter Lippmann (1889—1974)
American journalist.
_A Preface to Morals_ [1929]

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Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other; however it blow.
Oppression, and sickness, and sorrow, and pain
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.


It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from
a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a
scar. There are faces I can never look upon without
emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken
without almost starting.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.

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If you find yourself unwilling to accept me,
will you please pass this letter on to your
sister Caroline.
--Richard Lovelace (1618—1657)
English poet.
(Proposal letter to Mary Stuart Wortley.)


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