Love Quotes

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

~ Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.

~ Mosab Hassan Yousef

There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

~ Lope De Vega

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

~ Havelock Ellis

I like jealous men. I love jealousy. I do.

~ Adriana Lima

Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

~ Helen Fisher

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

~ Lawrence Durrell

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

~ Marie De France

A person's current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.

~ Kim Ki-Duk

Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

~ Tom Drury

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

~ George Meredith

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

~ Shiloh Fernandez

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

~ George Eliot

'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.

~ Kathe Koja

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

~ Mary Douglas

No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife.

~ James Beattie

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

~ Gong Li

I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in other media like TV, opera, theatre, and even in video games! I relish when dark and compelling characters compete for our protagonist's heart. The doubts, the uncertainty - the jealousy! - can be breathtaking.

~ Kresley Cole

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

~ Paul Eldridge

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

~ D. H. Lawrence

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

~ Dōgen

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

~ Gertrude Jekyll

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

~ Barbra Streisand

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

~ Suzy Bogguss

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

~ Sean Bean

I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

~ Elton John

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

~ Gertrude Jekyll

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

~ Jacqueline Bisset

I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

~ Helen Mirren

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

~ Blake Shelton

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

~ Elton John

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

~ Parker Posey

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

~ Shilpa Shetty

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

~ Steven Cojocaru

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

~ Carolyn Murphy

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

~ Amanda Donohoe

I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

~ Aaron Taylor-Johnson

One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.

~ Robert Fortune

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey