Quotes About Devotion

we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane. They

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

I never change, except in my affections.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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

My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Any place you love is the world to you.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Flame-coloured are his wings, and coloured like flame is his body. His lips are sweet as honey, and his breath is like frankincense.

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

you will always love, and you will always be loved

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won't you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Don't worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don't worry if you aren't known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.

I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.