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Quotes About Love

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
~ George Meredith
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
~ George Eliot
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before...
~ Unknown
What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
~ James Joyce
He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
~ William Shakespeare
A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
~ Unknown
I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
A kiss may ruin a human life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.
~ Unknown
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
~ John Ruskin
Love is the heart of the soul.
~ Unknown
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
~ Aphra Behn
Absence -- that common cure of love.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
~ Henry Youngman
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
~ Unknown
It's better to have loved and lost than to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
~ Unknown
Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.
~ Les Dawson
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
~ Joseph Conrad
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
~ Willa Cather
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~ Emily Bronte