Quotes and Phrases

           

Looking for a quote to spice up a wedding toast, a speech, or love letter? Need a little inspiration to remember what the warm-cozies actually are? No need to bake up some chocolate chip cookies (aka "warm hugs")... you'll find lots of love and romance quotes and phrases to fill in the gaps. If you use these quotes or phrases, remember to be a good little quoter and credit the originator listed below it!

           

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love is the tact of every good,
The only warmth, the only peace.
~ Delmore Schwartz

Love is form, and cannot be without important substance.
~ Charles Olsen

Love doesn't make the world go 'round.
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
~ Franklin P. Jones (attributed)

I shall love you until death do us part and then we shall be together for ever and ever.
~ Dylan Thomas

I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die.
Till the sun grows old,
And the stars are cold,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.
~ Bayard Taylor

Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
~ Robert Frost

One doesn't fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows into him.
~ Karl Menninger

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
...
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood faith.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you really want to love you will find it waiting for you.
~ Oscar Wilde

Somewhere there must one
Made for this soul, to move it;
~ William Johnson Cory

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
~ Ursula Le Guin

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
~ Albert Camus

If you be loved, be worthy of love.
~ Ovid

Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how or why.
~ Alexander Brome