Love Quotes

The force that moves poets, philosophers, and ordinary people to extraordinary acts.

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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself."
Stendhal
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"Love is the most beautiful of all passions because it shows a world of infinite beauty."
Stendhal
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"In love, as in war, audacity is a great asset."
Stendhal
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"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
Stendhal
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"To love is to suffer, and there is no remedy for love but to love more."
Stendhal
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"To be loved is all I hope, but to be understood would be the delight of my life."
Frances Burney
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"How do you know you're in love? When you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
Frances Burney
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"The heart has its own logic that reason knows nothing of."
Frances Burney
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"The capacity to love is humanity's greatest gift."
Frances Burney
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"To love imperfectly is better than not to love at all."
Frances Burney
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"To sacrifice for love is to understand its true measure."
Frances Burney
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"True love is a plant of slow growth."
Henry Fielding
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"The greatest gift is the gift of sincere affection."
Henry Fielding
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"True love is measured by deeds, not words."
Henry Fielding
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"The power of love transcends all earthly bonds."
Henry Fielding
"A man may be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
Daniel Defoe
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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
Jonathan Swift
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"We are better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Jonathan Swift
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great."
Jonathan Swift
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"Love is a serious mental disease."
Jonathan Swift
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"In truth, a man cannot love well if he does not first love himself."
Laurence Sterne
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"In love, as in art, there is no accounting for taste."
Laurence Sterne
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"The truest of all truths is that love is supreme."
Laurence Sterne
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"In matters of the heart, logic is often a stranger."
Laurence Sterne
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"The heart speaks a language that reason cannot translate."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Love is the desire of the whole being to be united with something or somebody."
Samuel Johnson
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"A man must be very much in love when he leaves London for Wales."
Samuel Johnson
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"To be loved is the greatest blessing life can offer."
Frances Burney
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"I find that the most happy marriages are those where neither party is burdened by great expectations."
Frances Burney
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"There is no greater joy than to be remembered fondly by those we love."
Frances Burney