“Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.”
“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
“Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.”
“In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”
“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.”
“We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.”
“No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.”
“If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.”
“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
“Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.”
“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”
“Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”
“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.”
“Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.”
“Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.”
“Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.”
“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.”
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
“Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.”
“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.”
“Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.”