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The following is 1-Love-Quotes users' selection of the Top 100 Love & Romance quotes of all time! This selection process included over four million users submitting their favorite Love Quotes. The Top 100 most frequently submitted love Quotes make up this list. See what users, such as yourself, have ranked as the "Top 100 Love Quotes of all Time" (compilation took place in 2010). Make sure to check out the entire Top 100 as they are ALL wonderful Love Quotes!

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Victor Hugo
100. "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
Victor Hugo
As quoted in Edge-tools of speech (1899) pg. 495
Attributed to famous playwright Victor Hugo.
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99. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love for ever."
Robert Burns
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Burns was involved with a married woman who he referred to as "Clarinda." This poem was written to her after she left him to attempt to save her marriage.
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Benjamin Disraeli
98. "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil or, the two nations (1845) pg. 56.
Spoken by the character Stephen Morley, in a novel about the plight of the working class.
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Lord Byron
97. "Like music on the waters is thy sweet voice to me."
Lord Byron
Stanzas for Music, st. 1 (1816).
Byron wrote this in a poem, ostensibly to be set to music. The entire poem is loaded with innuendo, and is addressed specifically to the person with whom the speaker is attracted to.
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Robert Browning
95. "Take away love, and our earth is a tomb."
Robert Browning
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54
The quote is from "Fra Lippo Lippi," which is a dramatic monologue. The main character of the poem is a painter and must choose between a life spent in service (but empty of art), and a life of leisure (and potentially love).
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94. "When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?"
From the lyrics of When a Heart Finds Another off the album Annie Haslam (1989)
From a soulful, almost mournful song, the next line reads, "Our love's growing wings and learns to fly And the rain has no mercy."
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Vita Sackville-West
93. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal."
Vita Sackville-West
Letter to Virginia Woolf (21 January 1926), quoted in Love Letters : A Romantic Treasury (1996) by Rick Smith, p. 78
Sackville-West wrote this letter to Virginia Woolf, with whom she had an affair. Woolf returned her affection in the form of the novel Orlando, which many recognize as a direct outpouring of Woolf's love. The letter also contains the line, "...you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it."
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92. "Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
Euripides
Hippolytus lines 525-529
This quote is spoken of by the Chorus of the play, which here was made up of married women. They are here speaking of the sometimes overwhelming power of love. The lines continue, "...of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent." While shocking, the quote displays how much power love has over us.
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91. "Make me immortal with a kiss! "
Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1604) Act V Scene I
The tragic play Doctor Faustus tells the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil, for power. The complete quote reads, "Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss," referencing Helen of Troy and the "face that launched a thousand ships."
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90. "We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
Pablo Neruda
Passionate Hearts: The Poetry of Sexual Love, page 105, translated from Spanish by Christopher Logue
The poem was originally written in Spanish and has no title, and is frequently included in poetry anthologies referencing love.
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Lord Byron
89. "She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudness climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes..."
Lord Byron
Hebrew Melodies (1815)
Byron was notorious for his varied tastes in both women and men. This poem was written about one Mrs. R. Wilmot. (Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7), about whom little is known. This was not the only poem directed at a woman who Byron did not revisit in later work. Regardless, one cannot discount the simplicity and subsequent beauty of the poem.
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88. "When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness."
Amy Lowell
A Decade
The quote continues "now you are like morning bread, / smooth and pleasant." This quote, from a poet that later went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is heavy with sensory language.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
87. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Le Petit Prince (1943), Chapter Chapter XXI
This quote is drawn from a novella that is the most widely translated book of its native language: French. The story tells of a narrator, a Prince, and a fox. The fox speaks this line to the little prince, after the prince tames the fox.
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86. "Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love."
Erich Fromm
The Art of Love (2000) pg. 115
Written by a psychologist in a treatise on love, and perhaps its decline in Western culture, this quote comes from a section titled, "The Practice of Love."
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85. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities"
Janos Arnay
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11
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84. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..."
John Gregory Dunne
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83. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
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82. "Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire, Dividing my delight and my desire."
A.C. Swinburne
The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne pg. 103
This quote is from a poem titled, "In the Orchard," and is full of extremely vivid sensual imagery. Another line from the poem reads, "O my fair lord, I charge you leave me this: Is it not sweeter than a foolish kiss? Nay take it then, my flower, my first in June."
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81. "A simple I love you means more than money."
Frank Sinatra
Lyric from Tell Her you Love Her
From a song, it continues, "And with a kiss or two her life is sunny. Give her a reason to live, she needs the love that you give."
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