Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Anniversary Quotes
There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.
Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.
Always tell the Truth: where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.
I hope that whoever stole it, stole it because they loved it, and not because of all the hype.
This is the real thing, brains lying on the ground, and the spectators love it.
Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
Love without fear and trepidation is fire without flame and heat.
Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee,
When the ev'ning beams are set?
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate.
Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.
And love runs down like this
Water, love runs down.
How slow life is,
How violent hope is.