Home / Topics / Love Quotes

Love Quotes

Browse 56293 quotes about Love.

Love Quotes

“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.”

Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. II

“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”

Source: Middlemarch: Easyread Edition

“Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.”

Love Firsts Littles Hands Joy Women Water Cry Dating Lips Favors Surrender Thee Gentle Shock Protest Tides Seashore Piers Goeth

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!”

Love Stars Glory Rounds Lips Streams Warmth Rays Palms Mystic Rosy

Book:The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

Source: The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey

“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”

“"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller. "Put your lips to this here tumbler, and then I can kiss you by deputy."”

Love Said I Can Drink Kissing Lips Dear Deputies

Book:The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire.”

Love Heart Children Desire Fire Fans Red Lips Blow Flames Admiration Sparks Waking Ardent Heart Love

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."”

Knows Love Heart Passion Broken Calm Lips Thunder Forgetfulness Tempest Heart Love Sullen

Book:Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)

“Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.”

World Love Mean Together Night Hours Church Common Habit Taste Worship Mass Letters Embrace Lips Phrases Formal Saturday Ceremony Saturday Night Love Means Words Love

Book:A Burnt Out Case

Source: A Burnt Out Case

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”