Love Quotes

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the unvisionary language of farm, city and love.
– Paul Engle
So what becomes of you my love when they have finally stripped you of the handbags and the glad rags that your Granddad had to sweat so you could buy.
– Jon English
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
– Louise Erdrich
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
– Louise Erdrich
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
– M. C. Escher
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
– Euripides
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
– Euripides
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first strike.
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
– Nelson Eddy
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
– Maria Edgeworth
Sting! I mean, come on - whoe doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.
– Jenna Elfman
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
– Harlan Ellison
I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.
– Jennifer Ellison
If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
– Jennifer Ellison
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time, through strife's hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
– Empedocles
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
– Yunus Emre
Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
– Erik Erikson
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
– Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Love is never wrong.
– Melissa Etheridge
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
– Euripedes
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
– Dale Evans
I would love to be an evangelist, but I think God has revealed to me that I can serve him best by just remaining at my post.
– Dale Evans
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
– Dakota Fanning
My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
– Dakota Fanning
Thank you so much for including me in this year's It List. I couldn't believe it when I found out! I was so excited. Thank you for inviting me to the It List party in New York. I wanted to come so bad, but I was filming in Mexico City. I love reading ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY!
– Dakota Fanning
The lesson that I hope everyone will learn when they see the movie is that it doesn't matter what car you drive and what apartment or house you live in, or even what you look like on the outside.It just matters what your heart looks like. [It's about] your ability to love.
– Dakota Fanning
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
– Frances Farmer
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
– George Farquhar
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
– William Faulkner
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
– William Faulkner
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.
– Dianne Feinstein
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
– Edna Ferber
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
– Marilyn Ferguson
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with Lost in Translation and Rushmore. I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.
– Will Ferrell
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
– Henry Fielding
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
– Henry Fielding
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
– Calista Flockhart
Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.
– Jane Fonda
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself. If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
– Harrison Ford
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
– Michel Foucault
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
– Gene Fowler
My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
– Jim Fox
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
– Emmet Fox
I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
– George Fox
Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.
– Matthew Fox
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
– Michael J. Fox
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
– Anatole France
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
– Anatole France
Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
– Brendan Francis
Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and in no time you feel terrifically exhilarated and all your inhibitions fly out the window.
– Dick Francis
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
– Robert Frank
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
– Benjamin Franklin
Love and tooth-ache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.
– Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
– Benjamin Franklin
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
– Miles Franklin
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
– Marilyn French
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
– Sigmund Freud
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
– Erich Fromm
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
– Erich Fromm
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
– Erich Fromm
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
– David Frost
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
– David Frost
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
– Robert Frost
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
– Robert Fulghum
Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
– Nan Fairbrother
What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.
– Benjamin F. Fairless
What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.
– Ed Fallon
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
– Hoosier Farmer
Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.
– Austin Farrer
As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors. But I must do my job perfectly, and I love what I do.
– Chow Yun Fat
In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
– Chow Yun Fat
I can't think why mothers love them. All babies do is leak at both ends.
– Douglas Feaver
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
– Geraldine A. Ferraro
My aim has always been modest; I wanted to transform the arranged marriage into a love match.
– Marcelle Ferron
Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of dutiful love.
– D. D. Field
If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.
– Debbi Fields
Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.
– Debbi Fields
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
– Oscar W. Firkins
She doesn't want to touch it. She doesn't want to smell it. She doesn't want to hear it. Lord love her. She's a Mail Order Freak.
– Jim Fishel
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
– M. F. K. Fisher
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
– Zelda Fitzgerald
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
– Peggy Fleming
Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.
– Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic actors, we became those two people. So we had a divertissement: I had an affair with him, and he with me.
– Lynn Fontanne
I love to make people smile.
– Patricia Ford
Life is just a bowl of cherries, dont take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
– Bob Fosse
She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.
– Jamie Foxx
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
– Victor Frankel
Never muddy the people you love.
– Rose Franken
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
– Lucinda Franks
If he [Clint Eastwood] hires you, he hires you because he feels like you know what to do. And he's very, very largely out of the way. He directs the picture, you do the acting. I love that, and I think that most of the people that he works with love that.
– Morgan Freeman
Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
– Richard Friedman
Everything is strange in our world now, and that's definitely true in large part for my dad. But what he taught me-and this is switching gears just a little bit-is the importance of, I guess, seizing the day. It's a beautiful thing if you can find it, to be in the moment. It's a nice refuge from our reality that I try take sometimes-to free myself to dance, to love, you know, and leave all the scary stuff for tomorrow.
– Soleil Moon Frye