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True love is eternal, infinite, always like unto itself; it is equable, pure, without violent demonstration; white hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850The Lily of the Valley (1835), Part II: First Love, as translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- Age
It is true that selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Erich Fromm1900–1980Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4
When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
I’m very romantic, I’m extremely romantic. I date my wife.
Alice Cooperborn 1948Interview with Andrew Denton on Enough Rope (20 June 2005)
- Marriage
I don’t make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
Fred Astaire1899–1987Said to Henry Ephron; quoted in Henry Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything (1977)
- Dancing
As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
- Age
- Marriage
“You can’t buy love with money.” Only a poor person says that.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949What I’ve Learned (July 2002)
- Money
When I’m married I want to be single, and when I’m single I want to be married.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
- Marriage
Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.
James Spaderborn 1960Playboy (May 2005)
- Acting
I don’t think I’ll ever find anyone I’ll love as much as I loved Elvis. It’s pointless trying to compare him to anyone. Yes, some men I’ve been with have mattered to me, but Elvis was my first love, he’ll be my last.
Priscilla Presleyborn 1945On Elvis Presley, “Elvis hated rules and Lisa Marie is just like him”, The Sunday Times (London, September 23, 2012)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Gospel of John (1611), John 3:16 (KJV)In context
- Christianity
- God
Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves.
Elizabeth I of England1533–1603The Golden Speech (1601)
- Leadership
You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII1894–1972Abdication broadcast (11 December 1936)
- Marriage
- Responsibility
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Speech on the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Indianapolis (4 April 1968)
- America
- Race