The course of true love never did run smooth.
40 quotations, from William Shakespeare, Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles and others, each checked for who actually said it.
English lines on love, from poets, novelists and letters. For love poetry in Urdu, see the Urdu pages, which are a different tradition altogether.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
That love is all there is, is all we know of love.
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love. I have found you.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
We are most alive when we're in love.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
The love of a family is life's greatest blessing.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
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Get the appVerses and attributions checked against the poets' published collections; lines that circulate online under famous names but are not theirs have been left out. Translations prepared and checked by MyByteNest. Updated 1 October 2026. Spot an error? Tell us.