Famous Love Quotes

Famous love quotes have been passed down through history so effectively that pretty much everyone has heard them.

We've chosen a selection of the most well known love quotes, put them into context and included the name of the author.

''Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.' – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

'Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good-night 'til it be tomorrow.' – William Shakespeare

'All's fair in love and war' – English Proverb

'Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned.' – William Congreve

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

'Absence makes the heart grow fonder' – Irish proverb

'Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss' – Christopher Marlowe

'But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.' – William Shakespeare

'Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you: I cannot live with you or without you.' – Martial

'Faint heart never won fair lady.' - William Gilbert

'Those that have loved longest love best' – Samuel Johnson

'There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.' – Thomas Moore

'Love means not ever having to say you're sorry' – Erich Segal

'If music be the food of love, play on' - William Shakespeare

'O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek.' - William Shakespeare

'The course of true love never did run smooth.' - William Shakespeare

'Love covers a multitude of sins.' – Bishop Robert South

'Love makes fools of us all, big and little.' – William Makepeace Thackery

'Love conquers all the world, let us too yield to love.' - Virgil

If you've enjoyed this selection of famous love quotes why not read our collection of romantic love quotes, sad love quotes and sweet love quotes for more inspiration?

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