Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Hello, Young Lovers, Wherever You Are.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.