love quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

“Reason is not what decides love.”

“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.”

“I love not man the less, but Nature more. ”

“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ”

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship. ”

“Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. ”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

“Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ”

“Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen. ”

“Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.”

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