Louisa May Alcott Love Quotations

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

Love is a beautifier.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Love is a great beautifier.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

I shall love her all my life, shall be to her a faithful friend, and if I can not remain loyal to both God and her I shall renounce her and never see her face again. You call this folly; to me it is a hard duty, and the more I love her the worthier of her will I endevour to become by my own integrity of soul.