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“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none” William Shakespeare, “All's Well That Ends Well” - 1623

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“I was liked, and what a difference it made.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.” William Butler Yeats, “Ephemera” - 1889

“Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“If music be the food of love, play on;” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“They do not love that do not show their love.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“You never understand anybody that loves you.” Ernest Hemingway, “Islands in the Stream” - 1970

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” - 16 April 1963

“In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“What barrier is there that love cannot break?” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“And where love ends, hate begins.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“Who, being loved, is poor?” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey” - 1817

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.” Oscar Wilde, “Lady Windermere's Fan” - 1892

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“I'm not sentimental—I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat” - 1843

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.” William Shakespeare, “Othello” - 1623

“Music, moody food of us that trade in love.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“Do anything rather than marry without affection.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A kind heart he hath; a woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick” - 1851

“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

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