Doris Duke Quotes

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

I don't know what love means.

There is nothing you can control about love.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Love is such a confusing word. You think I'm joking but I'm not.

I never fall in love.

I'm a little confused by love.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Daring to love someone is something we all do.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

I think love can be really tough. Because it involves ultimately an honesty to the nth degree that you are capable of. Once said, you've lost your deposit. It's best if you don't say it.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It's hard to talk about love without sounding either cheesy, or revealing too much personal stuff.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

One must not trifle with love.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?