Love Quotes

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
– Thomas Moore
I forgot out there on the stage to thank my cast. So if I could do that now, I want to thank Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. I thought the love scene between Cheney and Rumsfeld brought a tear to my eye.
– Michael Moore
Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
– Michael Moore
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
– Hannah More
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
– Hannah More
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
– Frank Morgan
With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.
– William Morris
When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase.
– Chris Morris
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
– Viggo Mortensen
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
– Hector Hugh Munro
I have recently re-read much of Chekhov and it's a humbling experience. I don't even claim Chekhov as an influence because he influenced all of us. Like Shakespeare his writing shed the most perfect light - there's no striving in it, no personality. Well, of course, wouldn't I love to do that!
– Alice Munro
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
– Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
– Iris Murdoch
That's a new thing for me, to have my costar in a scene turn to me and tell me they love me. In 48 HRS., Nick Nolte never turned to me and went I love you Ed!
– Eddie Murphy
But then there was a very strange moment when Pricilla actually left. Because you could feel Elvis. You could absolutely feel his presence everywhere. And when she left, it was almost like you could feel his real love went with her, as she rode out of the cemetery.
– Bill Murray
The return makes one love the farewell.
– Alfred de Musset
Love's a disease. But curable.
– Dame Rose Macaulay
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.
– Norman Maclean
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
– Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
– Vanessa Marcil
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
– Greil Marcus
I'd love to play a drinkin', smokin', raspy talkin' dame. I'm also dying to do an 18th-century love story. I tested for this film last year that Helena Bonham Carter got, but I'll tell you, during the two hours I spent in that corset with my little English accent, I had the best time of my life.
– Julianna Margulies
If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.
– Janice Markowitz
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person.
– Angie Martinez
The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.
– Don Mattingly
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
– Francois Mauriac
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
– Giuseppe Mazzini
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
– Giuseppe Mazzini
I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
– Rachel McAdams
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.
– Matthew McConaughey
Look at our love furnace! It's dead!
– Matthew McConaughey
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
– Carson McCullers
Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
– George F. McDougall
Intellectually I'd love to play Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire Can't you just imagine me down in the streets yelling Stella! Stella! God, the critics would have a lot of fun with that one.
– Roddy McDowall
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
– Gates McFadden
It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.
– Bobby McFerrin
Let us realize that:the privilege to work is a gift,the power to work is a blessing,the love of work is success!
– David O. McKay
Essentially, the New York Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.
– Zubin Mehta
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
– Anthony de Mello
I believe that richess is like love in the theatres and novels: no matter how often one encounters it in all shapes and sizes; it never misses its target if effectively wielded.
– Giacomo Meyerbeer
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
– Agnes de Mille
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
– Kate Millet
Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit.
– Eric Milner-White
That I may apprehend thee as light lightening every creature and everything, every moment; that I may know thee as truth, hearing thy voice; that I may serve thee as love, loving thy people, asking for no reward, no place, but one only and for one instant-to lean on thy bosom.
– Eric Milner-White
Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.
– Dannii Minogue
Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it.
– Carmen Miranda
More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how I can give delicious hugs?
– Carmen Miranda
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.
– Octave Mirbeau
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
– Octave Mirbeau
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
– Nancy Mitford
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
– Nancy Mitford
We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.
– Marc Forne Molne
Love talked about can be easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
– W. Stanley Mooneyham
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.
– Clayton Moore
Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, such no longer be; If foe, our love shall conquer thee.
– Paul Elmer More
The Duchess of Windsor never tried to hide her American upbringing or her love of fashion, even though the English prefer a royal family dressed in gum boots and head scarves.
– Diana Mosley
Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.
– Tom Mullen
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
– Robert Muller
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
– Dinah Maria Mulock
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
– Bess Myerson
I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
– Tony Hawk
I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.
– Tony Hawk
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
– Ogden Nash
I love playing in Vancouver and Toronto. They are beautiful cities, and I know lots of people in both places. I also love The Garden in New York, and I love going to Miami.
– Steve Nash
The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
– Steve Nash
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.
– Steve Nash
Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.
– Steve Nash
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
– Graham Nash
I plowed myself into listening to about 98% of everything that was ever recorded in the past 20-odd years-I began to fall back in love with why I love David and Steven in the first place. It put us back in touch with what our strengths were, and it was a thrilling process.
– Graham Nash
I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.
– Graham Nash
We truly love CSNY music, and so we're always waiting, and what happens is that we have lives to lead, too, so, you know, at some point we have to say, well, you know, I can't wait any longer we have to book a tour because, you know, they take three, four months of preparation before we actually step out on the stage.
– Graham Nash
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
– George Jean Nathan
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
– Sam Neill
I love the fact that you can't tell pinot noir what to do; it has to express itself. And it's always just beyond your grasp. If you do manage to get a hold of it, it's only for a fleeting moment.
– Sam Neill
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
– Ben Nelson
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
– Kent Nerburn
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.
– Kent Nerburn
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
– John Henry Cardinal Newman
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
– Paul Newman
I do movies because I love writing for orchestra though it scares me and the money is good. I can't make a living doing just albums, times are difficult now for geriatric artists.
– Randy Newman
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
– Olivia Newton-John
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
– Olivia Newton-John
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
– Stevie Nicks
Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
– Stevie Nicks
We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.
– Stevie Nicks
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.
– Reinhold Niebuhr
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
– Peggy Noonan
Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.
– Gary North
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
– Gary North
The New Testament tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. We are to deal with them in terms of God's law. We owe them such fair dealing.
– Gary North
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.
– Graham Norton
Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
– Graham Norton