Oscar WildeSourced
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Source: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Checked quotes about love
19 quotes with a known source.
Oscar WildeSourced
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Source: A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Leo TolstoySourced
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina, opening line (1877), tr. Constance Garnett
William ShakespeareSourced
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well, Act I, Scene 1
Jane AustenSourced
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Source: Pride and Prejudice, ch. 1 (1813)
BuddhaSourced
Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love.
Source: Dhammapada, v. 5, tr. Max Müller
VirgilSourced
Love conquers all.
Source: Eclogues X.69 ("Omnia vincit Amor")
Blaise PascalSourced
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Source: Pensées 277, tr. W. F. Trotter
Victor HugoSourced
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Source: Les Misérables, Fantine, Book 5, ch. 4 (1862)
Charlotte BrontëSourced
Reader, I married him.
Source: Jane Eyre, ch. 38 (1847)
Emily BrontëSourced
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Source: Wuthering Heights, ch. 9 (1847) — Catherine
Kahlil GibranSourced
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Source: The Prophet, "On Children" (1923)
Kahlil GibranSourced
Work is love made visible.
Source: The Prophet, "On Work" (1923)
Carl JungSourced
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
Martin Luther King Jr.Sourced
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Source: Strength to Love (1963)
Bertrand RussellSourced
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Source: What I Believe (1925)
Antoine de Saint-ExupérySourced
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Source: The Little Prince, ch. 21 (1943)
Vincent van GoghSourced
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Source: Letter to Theo (September 1888)
Václav HavelAttributed
Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred.
Source: His motto during the Velvet Revolution (1989)
Famous, but not theirs
Quotes about love that are usually credited to the wrong person.
William ShakespeareMisquoted
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
The real words: The line in Hamlet (III.2) is "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" — and "protest" meant "promise", not "object".
Victor HugoNot theirs
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Actually: A lyric from the 1980 stage musical Les Misérables, not from Hugo's novel.
Marilyn MonroeNot theirs
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Actually: No source exists from her lifetime; it appeared online in the 2000s.