love quotes

“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”

— Honore de Balzac

“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”

— Honore de Balzac

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”

— Honore de Balzac

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”

— Honore de Balzac

“The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside. ”

— Honore de Balzac

“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”

— Moliere

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

— Moliere

“The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ”

— Moliere

“It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.”

— Moliere

“Reason is not what decides love.”

— Moliere

“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”

— Aldous Huxley

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”

— Aldous Huxley

“

 Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

— Lord Byron