English Love Quotes:

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

- Joan Crawford

source: Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Dream, Humor Love, Humorous Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Awareness

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Song: Punish Me, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998

topic: Love, Life, Break Up, Hurting Him, Back Together

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

- Sam Keen

topic: Love, Anniversary, Marriage, My Girlfriend, Marriage Advice

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Art, Inspiration Love, Love Poems

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: The Lathe of Heaven ch. 10 (1971)

topic: Love, Life, Romantic, Free Love, Lady Love

Where there is love there is life.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Marriage, Jainism, Marriage Advice

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

- Laozi

topic: Love, Relationship, Positive, Touch Someone, Courage To Change

I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Dream, Everlasting Love, Special Love

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

- Pearl Bailey

topic: Love, Life, Heartbreak, Paperwork, Spring Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Running, Angel, Most Memorable, Mid Summer Nights Dream

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fear Of Love, Intense Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Boyfriend, Inspirational Flower, Inspirational True Love

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Love, Inspirational, Romantic, Humorous Love, I Love You Like

In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.164, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Writing, Garden, Order, Solicitors, English Love

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

- Robert Gottlieb

topic: Boys, Naughty, English Love

The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: English Love

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

- Henry Steele Commager

topic: Ignorance, Good Man, Privacy, Proverbial, English Love

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

- Neville Cardus

source: Quoted in Sir Rupert Hart-Davis Cardus on Cricket (1977).

topic: Law, Orderliness, Compromise, English Love, Legality