"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
Young men's love, then, lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
~
Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
"If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation."
~
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Bronte
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
~
A Princess of Mars
by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
She had found her heart at last. Never having known its worth till now, she had never known the worth of his.
~
Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
~
The History of Pendennis
by
William Makepeace Thackeray