Quotes about love
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Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve1670–1729The Way of the World (1700)Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Alexander Pope1688–1744“The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer” (c. 1704, published 1713), line 369- Alexander Pope1688–1744Pastorals (1709), Autumn
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
Robert Browning1812–1889“Never the Time and the Place” (1883).- Robert Browning1812–1889One Word More (1855), Stanza xvii.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene i- Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1820), “Lamia”, Pt. II, l. 1
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Summing Up (1938), p. 306
Richard Feynman1918–1988Note to the mother of Marcus Chown, who had admired the profile of Feynman presented in the BBC TV Horizon program “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out” (1981)
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), Lispeth.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
