Quotes About Love

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.