Quotes about love
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But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.
J. M. Coetzeeborn 1940Slow Man (2005)To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life’s tale to many a feeling heart!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“On taking Leave of ————“, l. 1 (1817)In many ways doth the full heart reveal
The presence of the love it would conceal.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Poems Written in Later Life, motto (1826)And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“The Presence of Love” (1807), ll. 10–11- Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Duty surviving Self-Love (1826)
Colette1873–1954Break of Day (1928)- CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 2, Vol. II; LXXXIX
Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve1670–1729The Way of the World (1700)If there’s delight in love, ‘tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.William Congreve1670–1729The Way of the World (1700), Act III, scene xii
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14
Alice Cooperborn 1948Interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope (20 June 2005)History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness
