Love Quote by John Donne

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get:…

— John Donne

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets…

— Daphne du Maurier

“My kind of love is made for the stage, untouchable and unbroken; its fate is to be doomed in repetition, in the most beautiful…

— Laura Chouette

“We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first…

— H. Rider Haggard

“The totality of love is just three simple acts; devotion, loyalty and sacrifice.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“ Duty o'er love was the choice you did make My love you did spurn, my heart you did break Your penance to pay,…

— Cherry Adair

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savour the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon.”

— Juliana Buhring

“I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow…

— Roshani Chokshi

“A vaincre sans peril, on triomphe sans gloire- To win without risk is a triumph without glory”

— Pierre Corneille

“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate of man:…

— A.E. Housman

“Love promises happily ever after, it boldly professes forever—but delivers only one thing—a reckless brand of hope.”

— Addison Moore