John Steinbeck Quotes

I don't want you to love me, If you don't wanna love me for me.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

When you love a woman don't be bothered about what others have said about love, because that is going to be an interference. You love a woman, the love is there, forget all that you have learned about love. Forget all Kinseys, forget all Masters and Johnsons, forget all Freuds and Jungs. Please don't become a language professor. Just love the woman and let love be there, and let love lead you and guide you into its innermost secrets, into its mysteries. Then you will be able to know what love is.

I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

I don't think anyone can fall in love for ratings.

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

If there is anything worth serving, it's this love. If there is anything worth being, it's this love. If there is anything worth talking about it's this love. If there is anything of real value it's this love.

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

It's nice when people love you....for you.

Whatever I did, I did with love and I did with honesty.

True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.

Economized love is never real love.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

How did you find me here? If I was blind, I would see you. Stay with me. Forever. That's the whole point. I'll never leave. Not even if you kill me.

I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

Love is not found in the market.

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.