Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.

I, of course, am not influenced by the television cameras, but some members are.

I couldn't imagine falling in love with someone on set. But then, maybe that is one of the messages of 'Halal Daddy.' You never know when and with whom you'll find love.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

Women still come up to me and say, 'If it wasn't for you, I would never have met my husband.'

Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?

To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.

You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.

A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

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