When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Love
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
-Leonard Matlovich "Epitaph of Leonard. P. Matlovich, 1988"
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Bhagwad Gita 12:18-19"
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
-Emily Giffin
"Something Blue"
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.
-Yves Saint Laurent
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
-Helen Keller
Love must be one and two at the same time.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
-Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom"
