Character Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives...

— Leonardo da Vinci

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of…

— Cesare Pavese

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is…

— Stephenie Meyer

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

— Roger L'Estrange

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.

— Anonymous

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

— William Shakespeare

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

— Stefan Molyneux