ROMANTIC :
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- Ovid
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
- Anonymous
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.
- Antoine Bret
Love is an ocean of emotions, entirely surrounded by expenses.
- Lord Dewar
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
- Benjamin Franklin
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
- Erich Fromm
TRUE LOVE :
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
- Margery Williams
All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
- John Donne
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
- William Shakespeare
True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
- Jennifer Aniston
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
- Jim Bishop
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
- Anonymous
What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.
- Robin St. John
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao-Tzu
Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away.
- Dick Sutphen
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
- Margaret Atwood
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.
- Garrison Keillor
The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
- William Shakespeare
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.
- Sir Walter Scott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity love. And the story of a love is not important what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
- Kahlil Gibran
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
PASSION:
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
- Lao-Tzu
Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
- Ally McBeal
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
- Nora Ephron
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
- Billy Connolly
You call it madness, but I call it love.
- Don Byas
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
- Ice T
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
- Thomas Carlyle
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
- Percy Bysshe Shelly
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
- Mae West
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
- Bob Hope
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
- H. L. Mencken
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock
She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
- Lord Byron
Love teaches even asses to dance.
- French proverb
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
- Hunter S. Thompson
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- Anonymous
It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.
- Patrick Campbell
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson
I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
- Joan Crawford
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.
- Glenda Jackson
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
- Brendan Behan
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
- Thomas Hardy
Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.
- Giacomo Casanova
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
- Robertson Davies
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
- Anonymous
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
- Harlan Ellison
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
- Billy Crystal
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
- Woody Allen
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
- Francoise Sagan
My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
- Les Dawson
Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
- Peter Ustinov
I prefer love over sex.
- Enrique Iglesias
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
- Honore de Balzac
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
- Thomas Hobbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
- John Milton
The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
- Alexander Pope
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
- William Shakespeare