Love Quote by Voltaire

“My dear miss," said Candide, "when one is in love, jealous, and has been whipped by the Inquisition, one becomes a stranger to oneself.”

— Voltaire

“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may…

— Voltaire

“She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Beloved, I would have you to count this to be your beauty, even holiness; for if ye have not this beauty, then all your…

— Various

“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They…

— Jean Giraudoux

“The very falsehood that stained her, was a proof how blindly she loved another--this dark, slight, elegant, handsome man--while he himself was rough, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskellbeth Gaskell

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“We don't marry women, he thought; we marry angels, and in this moment or two of the marriage act, the scales fall from our…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the “Joy of…

— Austin Osman Spare

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the…

— Walter Scott

“It seemed certain that Mrs Morpurgo must be kind and noble, for her husband said she was beautiful, and no beautiful woman would have…

— Rebecca West