Quotes about love
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Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895), Act III
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 121- George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), p. 23
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Book IV, Ch. 11- Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
A man may be a fool and not know it — but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack (1756)The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983“Synergy” onwards, 1005.56What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Beyond Good and Evil (1886), Chapter IV, aphorism 153, tr. Helen ZimmernIn context- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Morality as Anti-Nature,” § 5.3 (Ludovici trans.)
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso, Canto XXXIII, lines 85–87 (tr. Ciardi)
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), page 1190, as translated by Charles Wilbour and provided by A.L. Bert PublishersTo 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