Quotes About Love

I'm a terrible lover. I've actually given a woman an anti-climax.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.

A woman rarely discards one lover - until she is sure of another.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

Why do not words and kiss, and solemn pledge, And nature that is kind in woman's breast, And reason that in man is wise and good, And fear of Him who is a righteous Judge - Why do not these prevail for human life, To keep two hearts together, that be.

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not.

When a man and a woman die, as poets sung, His heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Count no woman wise, until thou hast received a letter from her hand; but love none thou hast not seen face to face, for she who is not foolish on paper is worth knowing.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is love.

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

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book, a beautiful woman - clicks, and part of that world takes on a special meaning. And you realize you have a story to tell.

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.