Quotes about love
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If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.
J. D. Salinger1919–2010Teddy (1953)Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Philip James Bailey1816–1902Festus (1839), Scene XVI, The Hesperian SpherePray but one prayer for me ‘twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.
William Morris1834–1896The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), “Summer Dawn”
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Getting Married (1908), Preface
Willa Cather1873–1947Youth and the Bright Medusa, “A Gold Slipper” (1920)
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), nos. 554–556
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), Vol. II, ch. 67
Hafez1326–1389A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911), p. 65 (Bicknell)
Catullus84–54 BCV, lines 7–9
Edith Sitwell1887–1964Green Song & Other Poems (1944), “Heart and Mind”
Charles IIIborn 1948“Anthony Carthew” (Obituary), The Times, 22 January 2007.
Amelia Earhart1897–1939Note to George P. Putnam, on the date of their wedding (7 February 1931), as quoted in The Sound of Wings (1989) by Mary S. Lovell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Duty surviving Self-Love (1826)
