These are some of my favorite quotations about love. Why they're heavy on the eighteenth century and must begin and end with Oscar Wilde is not a mystery to those who know me well!
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - What (women) like is to be a man's last romance." - Oscar Wilde
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." - Diane Ackerman
"In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire." -Jonathan Swift
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." -Samuel Johnson
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it." - Samuel Butler
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde
"What will survive of us is love." -Philip Larkin
"Nothing in this world is single, all things by laws divine in one spirit mix and mingle; why not I with thine?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always." - Dante Alighieri
"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." - Victor Hugo
"A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life." - Joseph Addison
"When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation." -Samuel Johnson
"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Mark Twain
"Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building." -Oscar Wilde
I cleaned the bathrooms for my family for Valentine's day. Now that's love.
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"Reader, I married him."
Jane Eyre
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