Famous Love Quotes

Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
-- Henry Van Dyke

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
-- Antoine De Saint Exupery

Love is not singular except in syllable.
-- Marvin Taylor

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
-- Bertrand Russell

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.
-- Woody Allen

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
-- John Barrymore

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
-- H L Mencken

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch.
-- Iris Murdoch

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
-- Quentin Crisp

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. -Phil Jackson.
-- Phil Jackson

Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.
-- Louis Ginzberg

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- Anon

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
-- Daniel S Greenberg

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.
-- H L Mencken

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
-- John Ciardi

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
-- John Ciardi

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
-- Erich Fromm

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
-- Marianne Williamson

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
-- John Le Carre