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

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn (1644 - 1718)

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2

And ruin'd love when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXIX

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1

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 (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, sc. 2

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3

Doubt that the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, sc. 4

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act I, sc. 1

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 1

If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 2

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 4

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove :
O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXVI

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7