John Vanbrugh Quotes

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love.

Virtue is her own reward.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

Love, like virtue, is its own reward.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Virtue is its own reward.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

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

You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

I want nothing from love, in short, but love.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others.

Virtue is indeed its own reward.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

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

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Love is love's reward.

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.