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title: "19 Love Ought Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 19 Love Ought quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best Love Ought sayings and thoughts."
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> [If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/if-you-re-in-love-it-ought-to-make-you-happy-you-ought-to-laugh/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [“First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-lowney/first-love-ought-to-manifest-itself-more-by-deeds-than-by-words/)

[Chris Lowney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-lowney/)

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> [“Real love ought to be more like a tree and less like a flower”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mya-robarts/real-love-ought-to-be-more-like-a-tree-and-less-like-a-flower/)

[Mya Robarts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mya-robarts/)

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> [“While we love, we ought to love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/while-we-love-we-ought-to-love/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/love-ought-to-show-itself-in-deeds-more-than-in-words/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-burke/they-never-will-love-where-they-ought-to-love-who-do-not-hate-where/)

[Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-burke/)

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> [The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-basis-of-all-excellence-is-truth-he-that-professes-love-ought-to/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/love-may-be-or-it-may-not-but-where-it-is-it-ought-to-reveal-itself/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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> [I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelangelo-antonioni/i-can-t-give-any-absolute-definition-of-what-love-is-or-even-whether/)

[Michelangelo Antonioni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelangelo-antonioni/)

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> [Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gungor/any-religious-philosophical-or-political-idea-that-doesn-t-lead-one/)

[Michael Gungor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gungor/)

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> [I'm not saying stealing a girl is okay at any cost, but the message I'm sending out is that if you love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kashmira-shah/i-m-not-saying-stealing-a-girl-is-okay-at-any-cost-but-the-message-i/)

[Kashmira Shah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kashmira-shah/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/706/kashmira-shah-7475_girl_i-m-not-saying-stealing-a-girl-is-okay-a_2028431.jpg)

> [The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-midgley/the-trouble-with-human-beings-is-not-really-that-they-love-themselves/)

[Mary Midgley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-midgley/)

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> [Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/because-there-is-nothing-here-than-invites-us-to-cherish-unhappy/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-pullman/looking-at-them-now-thought-jim-you-d-never-believe-they-weren-t-in/)

[Philip Pullman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-pullman/)

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> [“that's what love-driven leaders do. They see further. They move themselves beyond what blocks our vision in order to see what a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-lowney/that-s-what-love-driven-leaders-do-they-see-further-they-move/)

[Chris Lowney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-lowney/)

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> [Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-fuller/our-friends-should-be-our-incentives-to-right-but-not-only-our/)

[Margaret Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-fuller/)

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> [“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-woman-we-love-ought-to-swim-as-slowly-as-we-do-she-ought-to-have/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/milan-kundera-120_identity_the-woman-we-love-ought-to-swim-as-slowl_1978166.jpg)

> [“First, that we should love God with our whole heart—that is to say that our thoughts should always be truly directed towards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-porette/first-that-we-should-love-god-with-our-whole-heart-that-is-to-say/)

[Margaret Porette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-porette/)

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> [“Leroy's reasoning is dry as a razor, and Chantal agrees: love as an exaltation of two individuals, love as fidelity, passionate attachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/leroy-s-reasoning-is-dry-as-a-razor-and-chantal-agrees-love-as-an/)

[milan kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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