Famous Love Quote

What do Victor Hugo, Carl Jung, John Lennon, Louisa May Alcott, and Socrates have in common? The answer is that they have all commented on the ways of love. Love as a subject has found favor with many. If you are looking for a famous love quote, you will quite likely find it on this page.

Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Sigmund Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Dante Alighieri
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.

George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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

Sigmund Freud
We are never so helplessly unhappy as when we lose love.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be
Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie,
Howling in outer darkness.

Louisa May Alcott
Love is a great beautifier.

Nat King Cole
The greatest thing you ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

William Makepeace Thackeray
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Socrates
The hottest love has the coldest end.

Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Thomas Moore
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

George Moore
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

William Shakespeare
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking you and beat love down.

Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.