Peter De Vries Quotes

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

This is love that surrounds, only a fool without wisdom can see. Blind as I am in your eyes, my lady of dreams.

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

You know what they say - love is blind.