People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.
...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.
People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.
If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave
But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.
Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.
Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.
She stares at me for a moment, and then she bursts out laughing. “You haven’t seen his perfect little wife and his perfect little girls. Believe me, Oliver, I’m not the great love of his life, the one he’ll never forget.” “You are to me,” I say.
Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.
