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Quotes About Love

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
~ William Cowper
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
~ William Cullen Bryant
To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Good day to you, Sister," Gannon grunted, gritting his teeth and clenching the reins in a white-knuckled grip. "May you live to see your great-grandchildren, and may your eyes never grow dim!" Rolin stifled a snicker. His spinster aunt was childless, and her eyesight was poor from years of needlework.
~ William D. Burt
Please remember that our time on this Earth is not guaranteed. Please tell those you love that you do. Right now. This very minute. —SOPHIA BUSH
~ William D. Cohan
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around–and why his parents will always wave back.
~ William D. Tammeus
But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again, James had risked everything for her. Most reationshps in life can survive - or not - without being put to any real crucial, fundamental test. It was James's fate for his love to be tested not once, but four times...At each stage he could easily have washed his hands off his teenage lover. Each time he chose to remain true to her. That, not the words of any will, was the evidence she could cling to.
~ William Dalrymple
Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No
~ William Dalrymple
Love within my being. You lived with me, breath of my breath, Being in my being, nor left my side; But now the wheel of Time has turned And you are gone – no joys abide. You
~ William Dalrymple
I have heard that well-born girls sometimes fall in love with low-born youths and are covered in scandal which neither threats nor punishment can control, so their fathers are obliged to drive them out of the house. The streets are full of innumerable such once-well-bred girls sitting on the pavements.
~ William Dalrymple
dominion in India shall long cease to exist, and when the sources which it once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance … In truth I love India a little more than my own country.'87
~ William Dalrymple
I don't know," said the papa. "We shall just have to keep on and see. Perhaps when they meet the Prince and Princess we shall find out. I don't suppose a boy would fall in love with a boy." "No," said the niece; "but he might want to go off with him and have fun, or something." "That's true," said the papa. "We've got to all watch out.
~ William Dean Howells
She felt him more than life to her and knew him lost, and the frenzy, that makes a woman kill the man she loves, or fling vitriol to destroy the beauty she cannot have for all hers, possessed her lawless soul.
~ William Dean Howells
I am yours, for time and eternity--time and eternity.
~ William Dean Howells
All love is lost but upon God alone.
~ William Dunbar
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
~ William E. Channing
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
~ William Ellery Channing
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
~ William Ellery Channing
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
~ William Ellery Channing
True love is the parent of humility.
~ William Ellery Channing
There is no place like your own meaning there's no place like home
~ William F. Halsey
Cupid, you see, was a more dangerous archer than even mighty Apollo, for, although Apollo's arrows could drain one's life blood in an instant, a wound from Cupid's arrows would cause one to fall deeply in love
~ William F. Russell
Why do you hate the South?I dont hate it…. I dont hate it…. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
~ William Faulkner
He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.
~ William Faulkner