Quotations About / On: LOVE

  • 41.
    You are wise,
    Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
    Exceeds man's might.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 155-7. Speaking to Troilus.)
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  • 42.
    We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 321 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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  • 43.
    Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
    (François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 324 (1678).)
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  • 44.
    May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Essay on "Chastity and Sensuality" in letter, September 1852, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 207, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 45.
    It is not their brotherly love but the impotence of their brotherly love that keeps the Christians of today from—burning us.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 5, p. 91, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Beyond Good and Evil, "Fourth Part: Maxims and Interludes," section 104 (1886).)
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  • 46.
    Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
    (George Borrow (1803-1881), British author. The Bible in Spain, ch. 4 (1843). "He who is proud of his country," Borrow explained, "will be particularly cautious not to do anything which is calculated to disgrace it.")
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  • 47.
    We love the things we love for what they are.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Hyla Brook.")
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  • 48.
    Imperceptibly the love of these dischords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
    (Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. author. The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, letter, December 1, 1835, to Beverly Tucker, ed. John Ward Ostrom (1966). The poetics of atonality.)
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  • 49.
    I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
    (Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. Strong Opinions, ch. 2 (1973).)
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  • 50.
    I first tasted under Apollo's lips
    love and love sweetness,
    I Evadne....
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Evadne.")
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