Quotes and Sayings

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance.”
~Oscar Wilde

A kiss may ruin a human life.

~Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

~ Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.

~ Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

~ Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

~ Oscar Wilde

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

~ Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one’s nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.

~ Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
~ Oscar Wilde

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands.

~ Oscar Wilde

“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”

~ Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

~ Oscar Wilde

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
~ Oscar Wilde

Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

~ Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.

~ Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable.

~ Oscar Wilde

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
~ Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.
~ Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
~Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
~Oscar Wilde

Here are some love quotes for those who are still trying to get his/her lover.

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

“May God put a spell on you… so you won’t forget me.”

“A lost love is never lost unless what’s lost is the love for your lover.”

“When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most.”

“How do you say goodbye to someone who had you at hello?”

“A teardrop is insignificant in a pool of water, but it can touch the soul as it runs down someone’s face.”

“Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.”

“It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone,when you’re heart still does.”

“I still love you with all the little pieces of my heart that you left,but don’t take them it’s the only thing I have that still has your name on it.”

“The saddest love is to love someone, to know that they still want you, but the circumstances don’t let you have them.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more. ”

“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”

We have some more sad love quotes, please check them out.

Here are some Love Quotes for the soul by Kahlil Gibran.

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” Don’t force yourself into love don’t be possessive, for these are not the traits of love. Love is Freedom.

“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ”

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. ” I am sure you have heard of this quote often, in Monday morning chain mails and such like, but Did you know that this was by Kahlil Gibran?

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations” Dear Reader, mind you, this need not be the first sight kind of love either.

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” Ah, yes, what would life be, if not for love.

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” And when you start losing trust on your love, then is when the first crack appears in a relationship. If you can’t trust you partner, happiness is gone forever.

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.” isn’t it so true… The Women of your dreams

“Love is trembling happiness.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”

“Love… It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

Please submit Kahlil Gibran Quotes below

Here are some memorable love quotes from romantic movies.

“Death can not stop true love, it can only delay it for a little while.”
~ from the movie “The Princess Bride”

“I will love you my whole life. You and no other.”
~ Braveheart, one of my favorite movies

“That’s why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they’d call them something else.”
~Sixteen Candles

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
~From the movie Shaw Shank Redemption

“May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.”
~A Knight’s Tale

“There Are Millions Of People In This world, But In The end It All Comes Down To One ”
~Crazy/Beautiful (Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez)

“You are what I never knew I always wanted ”
~Fools Rush In

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you”
~Bram Stoker’s Dracula
“Only in the mysterious equations of love can any real logic be found.”
~ From Ron Howard’s movie A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe

“We should be lovers, and that’s a fact. ”
~ Moulin Rouge

“It wasn’t over, it still isn’t over”
~ The Notebook

This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.
~ From the all time romantic classic of Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep Bridges of Madison County

Jamie: You have to promise you won’t fall in love with me.
Landon: That’s not a problem.
~From a walk to remember,

If I tell you I love you, can I keep you forever?
~ From Casper

“You make me want to be a better man.”
~ As Good As It Gets

“Love actually is all around us. ”
~ Hugh Grant, Love Actually

“You’ll always know when the right person walks into your life.”
~The Butcher’s Wife

“I want you to get swept away. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture, dance like a dervish.”
~From Meet Joe Black

“I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you”
~Pocahontas

“If you love someone you say it, you say it right then, out loud. Otherwise the moment just… passes you by…”
~ My Best Friend’s Wedding

“If I had one more night to live, I would want to spend it with you.”
~Pearl Harbor

Please submit love quotes from your favorite movies.

This is my favorite collection of crush and love quotes. When you first fall in love, People, those condescending type, would say ah, it is but infatuation or crush, but if it was crush, how come we never forget that first love, that first shy glance, that furtive smile.

We do have crush on Angelina Jolie, and I had a big crush on Winona Ryder, but we should not confuse first love with crush. This is a collection of Crush and Love quotes…

“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.” ~Israel Zangwill

We usually don’t express our crush, we just can’t… afraid that she might not reciprocate? This crush and love quote sums it up

“I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can’t give you my soul and my heart because you’ll just break it apart.”

“So dear I love him that with him,
All deaths I could endure.
Without him, live no life. ”
~ by William Shakespeare

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” But do you ever have a crush on an imperfect person?

And if you may also want to see some break up quotes.

Submit your crush and love quotes below

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

The original context:

I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”~Kahlil Gibran

“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” ~ Mother Teresa

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~Bertrand Russell

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” ~Ann Landers

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ” ~ Pearl S. Buck

“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”~ C.S. Lewis

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”~ Euripides

Some of my favorite teen love quotes.

I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. ~Jaesse Tyler

“When love is not madness, it is not love.’ ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“Never love anything that can’t love you back.”~ Bruce Williams

“We loved with a love that was more than love.” ~Edgar Allan Poe

“Twas not my lips you kissed, But my soul” ~Judy Garland

“Love is a better teacher than duty” ~Albert Einstein

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”~ John Donne

“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” ~Elizabeth Bowen

“Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.”~T. S. Eliot

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ~Robert Frost

Do you remember your first love. I do. And I was 10. She was in my senior class. And I thought she was the most beautiful girl in the world, until our new Yoga Teacher walked in one day!

By the time I was a teenager, every girl I met were my first love. I never tried to find out if they believed it or not.

I have compiled this lists of first love quotes on that note
“The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.” ~Edith Wharton

Did my heart love till now?
Forswear it sight,
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

“You love simply because you cannot help it.” ~ by Kim Anderson

“When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down and they don’t get up for at least an hour.” Never happened to me though, though I love this love quote none the less

“The best thing about me is you.”

Submit your first love quotes below.

We also have some funny love quotes.

We have collected many types of love quotes and this are some of the funny quotes about love, mostly by famous people.

“The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.”~ Woody Allen

” A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.” ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” ~Samuel Johnson

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark

“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.” ~Woodrow Wyatt

“Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.” ~Rita Rudner

“My wife and I were happy for 20 years - then we met.” ~Rodney Dangerfield

“Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it.” ~Josh Billings

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.” ~H. L. Mencken

“Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce

“Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.” ~Oscar Wilde

Here are more love quotes for your soul. I hope you like them

“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.”
~ Unknown

“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.”
~Thomas Fuller ..
May I add that Whoever said that thing about out of sight out of mind never knew true love

“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.”
~Unknown

“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.”
~Rusty Silvey

“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”
~John Keats

“Love is also an attribute of a person. Love is actually an intimate feeling which one person feels for another. Love is not just a vague impersonal force which floats around bestowing itself on people.”

Jagad Guru Chris Butler – Sayings

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
~Victor Hugo

“Love - a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.”
~Unknown

“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.”
~ Stacie Cunningham

“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft This is something strikes a chord with all of us, no?

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.”
~ Robert Browning
But of course..

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.”
~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Those who love deeply never grow old.”
~Anonymous, Look at me
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
~Janos Arnay

Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings”

“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”
~Victor Robinson

“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.”
~Unknown

“There is a time for all things — except marriage my dear.”
~Thomas Chatterton

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
~Mignon McLaughlin

“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.”
~Sammy Cahn

. “Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
~Plato

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
~Barbara De Angelis

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
~Jane Austen

“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.”
~Melanie Clark

“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
~ Lord Byron’s Love Poem

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
~H. L. Mencken

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
~Erich Segal ( If you read Erich Segal’s books, you will find gems of quotes about love, that will make you cry.. I have cried reading Acts of faith, Doctors and love story)

“We can only learn to love by loving.”
~Iris Murdoch .. How sweetly true is this
“It is impossible to love and be wise.”
~ Francis Bacon (is this what inspired the song Fools tread where the angels fear to tread?)

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
~Ingrid Bergman, But of course…

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
~Albert Einstein, Love ain’t apples
“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”
~Ambrose Bierce .. Now, is love the end of marriage?

“Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.”
~Erich Fromm

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.”
~One of Emily Dickinson’s Love Quotes

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
~A life quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
~Amelia Burr ..

This is one funny life quote, “In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.”
~Kathy Norris

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.”
~Euripides

Do add your favorite love quotes using the form below..