Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

—William Shakespeare

Who, being loved, is poor?

—Oscar Wilde

We loved with a love that was more than love.

—Edgar Allan Poe

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

—Ben Hecht

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.      —Robert Browning

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

—Eva Gabor

A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.

—Latin Proverb

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.

—Blaise Pascal

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.         —Victor Hugo

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

—Robert Frost

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.       —Pablo Picasso

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.          —Aerosmith

Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the Braille weren’t so damned much fun.

—Armistead Maupin

Love is metaphysical gravity.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

 —Ingrid Bergman

All thoughts, all passions, all delights / Whatever stirs this mortal frame / All are but ministers of Love / And feed His sacred flame.

 —Samuel Taylor Coleridge