“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
~Amos Bronson Alcot

Although this was surly the case back when Alcott was alive, it no longer applies to anyone looking for love quotes on the Internet today. The best and brightest quotes on anything from dating to divorce can be found within clicks – if you know where to look. In this case, we have a whack of famous love quotes that might suit you need, whatever it may be. Use them to add punch to your love letters or as fuel for romantic conversation. Here are a few we’ve found.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Robert Frost

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
~Aimee Mullins

Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
~C. S. Lewis

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
~Sophocles

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Albert Camus

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
~Rita Rudner

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
~Jane Austen

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
~Garry Shandling

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~Anatole France

Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
~Erica Jong,

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
~Madonna

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
~Alan Watts

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
~Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.
~Henry Bromel

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
~Toni Morrison

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
~John Constable

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
~Jennifer Aniston

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~Joan Rivers

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
~Euripides

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~Jane Austen

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
~William Shakespeare

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
~Petrarch

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~Aristotle

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
~Lynda Barry

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
~Jane Austen

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
~Margaret Cho

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
~Hugh Elliott

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
~Aristotle

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~Anton Chekhov

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
~Victor Hugo

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
~M. Scott Peck

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
~Julie Morgenstern

We can only learn to love by loving.
~Iris Murdoch

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~Bertrand Russell

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
~Arthur Brisbane

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
~Bette Davis

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
~Jane Austen

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
~Aesop

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~H. L. Mencken

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.
~Anonymous

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
~Blaise Pascal

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
~Dorothy Parker

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
~Elbert Hubbard

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
~Jeanne Moreau

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
~Sir Francis Bacon

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
~Carl Jung

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~Charles M. Schulz

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
~David Viscott

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan

All people want is someone to listen.
~Hugh Elliott

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
~Oprah Winfrey

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
~Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
~Mrs. Patrick Campbell

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
~Friedrich Nietzsche

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
~Rebecca West

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
~Jean Kerr

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
~Madame de Tencin

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
~William Shakespeare

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
~Erica Jong

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
~Jeff Melvoin

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~Rabbi Julius Gordon

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
~Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.
~Trey Parker and Matt Stone

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
~W. Somerset Maugham

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~Jane Austen

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
~Cheryl Tiegs

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
~Hugh Elliott,

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
~Ice T

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
~John Barrymore

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
~Publilius Syrus

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
~Iris Murdoch

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
~Jane Austen

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
~John Sheffield

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
~Karen Sunde

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
~Matt Groening

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
~Japanese Proverb

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
~Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~Peter Ustinov

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.
~Marlene Dietrich

But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
~William Shakespeare

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
~Havelock Ellis