And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
He made all countries where he came his own.
Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
But love's a malady without a cure.
Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.
My love's a noble madness.
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
Love either finds equality or makes it.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
He loved me well: so well he could but die - To show he loved me better than his life; he lost it for me
Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.
Politicians neither love nor hate.
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
Love is love's reward.
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Pity melts the mind to love.
Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.
My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.
All, all of a piece throughout; / Thy chase had a beast in view; / Thy wars brought nothing about; / Thy lovers were all untrue. / 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new.
The lovely Thais by his side, / Sat like a blooming Eastern bride.