Love Quotes from Literature

"You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money." ~ Man And Superman by George Bernard Shaw When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything tends to widen the breach. ~ Run to Earth by Mary Elizabeth Braddon What did she feel? Did she love him, or did she feel nothing at all for him or for any other man, being, as she had said that afternoon, free, like the wind or the sea? ~ The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." ~ Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare "What is love but a disease?" ~ The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang "A marriage without love is dishonour." ~ Sandra Belloni by George Meredith "Kissing don't last: cookery do!" ~ The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith The task of reclaiming a bad man is extremely seductive to good women. ~ The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. ~ Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions. ~ Hard Times by Charles Dickens