Quotes about "Love & Romance"

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ”

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. ”

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ”

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. ”

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. ”

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ”

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. ”

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ”

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ”

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ”