“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
Love is the most written-about subject in human history, and it still manages to surprise us. These quotes cover romantic love, family love, self-love, unrequited love, and the kind of love that quietly sustains you through ordinary days.
“I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”
“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.”
“I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.”
“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
“True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.”
“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
“The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”