Love Quotations

Here is a small collection of quotations about love. Some are here because I admire the author or speaker, others are here because they make me smile or move me.

Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.
~ Lisa Hoffman

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
~ Winston Churchill

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

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~ Ingrid Bergman

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
~ Katharine Hepburn

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
~ Lily Tomlin

Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
~ Jeanne Moreau

How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
~ Albert Einstein

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love thee, I love but thee
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars grow old…
~ Bayard Taylor

The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
~ Houssaye

I am you and you are love and that is what makes the world go ’round.
~ Clive Barker

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
~ John Lennon

Where there is love there is life.
~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Mother Teresa

Do you love me because I’m beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
~ Oscar Hammerstein II

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
~ Pearl Baily

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
~ Sir Arthur Pinero

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
~ William Sloane Coffin

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
~ Mistinguett

Amo, amas, I love a lass,
As a cedar tall and slender
Sweet cowslip’s grace Is her nominative case,
And she’s of the feminine gender.
~ John O’Keefe

Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
~ Lope de Vega

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in Whining poetry.
~ John Donne

Love is an emotion a woman always feels for her poodle, and sometimes for a man.
~ unknown

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
~ Arrigo Boito