Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Anonymous

It's love that makes the world go round
Translation of a French song

A lady's imagination is very rapid;
It jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a minute.

said by Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
1775-1817

Wives are young men's mistresses;
Companions for middle age; and old mens nurses
Francis Bacon 1561-1626
From Of Marriage and the single life

He reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question , when a man shold marry?  A young man not yet, an older man not at all.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626
From Of Marriage and the single life

Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
1579-1625
From The Queen of Corinth

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret

Aphra Behn
1640-1689
from The Lovers watch, Four O'clock

Being a husband is a whole-time job.
That is why so many husbands fail
They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Arnold Bennet 1867-1931
from The Title

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

William Blake 1757-1827
From Never seek to tell thy Love

If thou must love me, let it be for naught
Except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning 1806-1861
From Sonnets from the Portuguese

Alas the love of women! It is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing

Lord Byron 1788-1824
From Don Juan

In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
1788-1824

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron
1788-1824

Oh she is the antidote to desire

William Congreve
1670-1729
From The way of the world.

I am not the rose, but I have lived with her.

Benjamin Constant
1767-1830

But what is woman?- only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.

Hannah Cowley
1743-1809
From who's the dupe.

For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room, an everywhere.

John Donne
1571-1631
From The Good-Morrow

Love all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

John Donne
1571-1631
From The Sun Rising

I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! In my fashion.

Ernest Dowson
1867-1900

And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.

John Dryden
1631-1700
From The Indian Emperor

All heiresses are beautiful.

John Dryden
1631-1700
From King Arthur

All mankind love a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

George Farquhar
1678-1767

From The Recruiting Officer

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754
From Love in Several Masques

Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter.

Phineas Fletcher
1582-1650
From Sicelides

There is a lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
I did but see her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford
1580-1648
From There is a Lady

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Robert Frost
1874-1963

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Edward Gibbon
1737-1794

Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?

Owen Hall
1854-1907
From Floradora

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry
1862-1910
From Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

A sweet disorder of the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness

Robert Herrick
1591-1674
From Delight in Disorder

You say, to me-words your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Robert Herrick
1591-1674
From Love me Little, Love me Long

Only to kiss that air
That lately kissed thee.

Robert Herrick
1591-1674
From To Electra

Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave.

A.E. Housman
1859-1936
From A Shropshire Lad

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Hungerford
1855-1897
From Molly Bawn

A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife Elizabeth.

Jean Ingelow
1820-1897

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Wahington Irving
1783-1859
From The Broken Heart

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Jerome K. Jerome
1859-1927
From On Being Idle

Love's like the measles - all the worst when it comes late in life.

Douglas Jerrold
1803-1857
From A Philanthropist

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Dr. Johnson
1709-1784
From Rasselas

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Dr. Johnson
1709-1784

Come, my Celia, let us prove,
While we can, the sports of love.

Ben Jonson
1573-1637
From Volpone

Drink to me only with thine eyes
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.

Ben Jonson
1573-1637
From To Celia

She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love and she be fair.

John Keats
1795-1821
From Ode on a Grecian Urn

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936
From The Female of the Species

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936
From Plain Tales from the Hills

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936
From Soldiers Three

As beautiful as a woman's blush, -
As evanescent too.

Letitia Landon
1802-1838

Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.

Maria Lovell
1803-1877
From Ingomar the Barbarian

Cupid and my Campaspe
At cards for kisses, cupid paid.

John Lyly
1554-1606
From Campaspe

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies

Christopher Marlowe
1564-1593
From The Passionate Shepherd to his love

She's all my fancy painted her;
She's lovely, she's divine.

William Mee
1788-1862
From Alice Gray

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning where she won.

George Meredith
1828-1909
From Love in the Valley

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore
1778-1852
From Love's Young Dream

I do not love thee! - no! I do not love thee!
And yet when thou art absent, I am sad.

Caroline Norton
1808-1877
From I do not love thee

Her hair that lay along her back
Was yellow like ripe corn.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti
1828-1882
From The Blessed Damozel

Love rules the court, the campt, the grove,
And men below, and saints above;
For love is heaven. and heaven is love.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel

True Love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616
From The Merchant of Venice

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-19509
From Maxims for Revolutionists

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again, I wrote it with a second hand:
But came the tide and mde my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dust in vain assay,
A mortal thing to so immortalise.

Edmund Spenser
1552-1599
From Amoretti

In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
1809-1892
From Lockslay Hall

I loved a lass, a fair one,
As fair as e'er was seen.
She was indeed a rare one,
Another Sheba queen.

George Wither
1588-1667
From A Love Sonnet

She was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight

William Wordsworth
1770-1850
From She was a phantom of delight

'Tis said that some have died for love.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850
From 'Tis said some have died.