William Congreve Quotes

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

One is very crazy when in love.

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Love is merely a madness.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

You're not sick you're just in love.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.