We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who, on grounds of decorum and morality, avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.

Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!

There's nothing half so sweet in life As loves young dream.

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

To love, that's the point-what matters whom? What does the bottle matter provided we can be drunk?