Sep 1, 2010
Quotes by St Augustine
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet".
Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you, Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. I'll love you till the ocean, Is folded and hung up to dry, And the seven stars go squawking, Like geese about the sky. He was my North, my South, my East, my West, My working week and my Sunday ... Read More
Aug 19, 2010
Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"Danger no refuge holds, and war no peace, For him who hears love sing and never cease. Never give all the heart, for love, Will hardly seem worth thinking of , To passionate women if it seem, Certain and they never dream , that it fades out from kiss to kiss. In middle life, they take a kiss for what a kiss is worth, And let the dream go by. And she and I, Shall light upon a ... Read More
Aug 8, 2010
Quotes by Fitz-Greene Halleck
"None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise".
Quotes by Thomas Gray
"The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn thoughts that breathe and words that burn".
Quotes by Robert von Ranke Graves
"O Love, be fed with apples while you may, And feel the sun and go in royal array, A smiling innocent on the heavenly causeway".
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the ... Read More
Jul 8, 2010
Quotes by Robert Herrick
"A sweet disorder in the dress, Kindles in clothes a wantonness. Bid me to love, and I will live, Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give, A loving heart to thee. All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drowned with us in endless night".
Quotes by George Herbert
"Love is swift of fool; Love's a man of war, And can shoot, And can hit from far".
Quotes by Edward Herbert
"O that our love might take ... Read More
Jun 3, 2010
Quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
"Love's like the measles; -all the worse when it comes late in life".
Quotes by Jerome Klapka Jerome
"Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it".
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters".
Quotes by James I
"So far I fallen was in loves dance, That suddenly my wit, my countenance, My heart, my will, my nature, and my mind, Was ... Read More
May 23, 2010
Quotes by Sir John Betjeman
"Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakness of joy, The speed of a swallow; the grace of a boy, With carefullest carelessness, gaily you won, I am weak from your loveliness, Joan hunter Dunn. And the scent of her wrap, and the words never said, And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead. We sat in the car-park till twenty to one, And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn".
Quotes by Louis de Bernieres
"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like ... Read More
May 20, 2010
Quotes by Sir Harry Lauder
"I love a lassie, a bonnie Hieland lassie".
Quotes by Henry King
"We that did nothing study but the way, To love each other, with which thoughts the day, Rose with delight to us, and with them set, must learn the hateful art, how to forget".
Quotes by John Phillip Kemble
"Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - Why did you kick me downstairs?"
Quotes by John Keats
"O what can ail thee, Knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering; The sedge has ... Read More