Had we never loved so kindly, had we never loved so blindly, never met or never parted, we had ne'er been broken-hearted.

Robert Burns · The source reads: “Had we never lov'd sae kindly, / Had we never lov'd sae blindly, / Never met—or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted.” · The middle stanza of "Ae Fond Kiss," his farewell to Agnes Maclehose, written in 1791 as she sailed for Jamaica; the familiar form turns the Scots "sae" to "so."

O my Luve is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.

Robert Burns · The source reads: “O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June:” · The opening of "A Red, Red Rose," the best known lines in Scots verse, written in 1794 to an old tune; Luve is love.

More Love Quotes

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.

To get rid of an enemy, one must love him.

Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.