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“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.”
Ovid
“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
Ovid
“If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.”
Ovid
“Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.”
Ovid
“Love is full of anxious fears.”
Ovid
“Love is a kind of warfare.”
Ovid
“Every lover is a soldier.”
Ovid
“Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.”
Ovid
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
Ovid
“He who says o'er much I love not is in love.”
Ovid
“He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.”
Ovid
“Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.”
Ovid
“Love is a credulous thing.”
Ovid
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare
“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”
William Shakespeare
“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”
William Shakespeare
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
William Shakespeare
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”
William Shakespeare
“Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.”
William Shakespeare
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
William Shakespeare
“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
William Shakespeare
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
William Shakespeare
“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”
William Shakespeare
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
William Shakespeare
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
William Shakespeare
“Speak low, if you speak love.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
William Shakespeare
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
William Shakespeare
