Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

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

Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don't make the right decisions.

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

Love is . . . a madness most discreet

Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these signs I had begun to recognize, I sought them, responded to those signs I awaited with other signs I made myself, or rather it was I who aroused them, these signs from her, which I answered with other signs of my own . . .

I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

I love you. Most ardently.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

There is always some madness in love.

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.

I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.