Top 47 Love Folly Quotes

#1. It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.

Stevie Smith

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#2. To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.

George Orwell

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#3. To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

Dorothy Day

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#4. To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

Denis Diderot

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#5. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Leo Tolstoy

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#6. She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

William Shakespeare

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#7. Since love is folly, a foolish woman is more dangerous than a wise one.

Franz Grillparzer

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#8. Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you went? To make all sorts of people love you a little and tease you a little and be a little grateful to you?

Hermann Hesse

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#9. Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

Shelby Foote

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#10. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

Cassandra Golds

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#11. Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best. "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885

Craig Johnson

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#12. Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

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#13. Our love had begun in folly, and ended in madness!

Charles Dickens

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#14. I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indifference,
I miss you like a frozen tear finding its course,
I miss you in your presence inside me,
I miss you in every breath I take.

Debatrayee Banerjee

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#15. The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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#16. Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy.

Michael R. Burch

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#17. It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go. If there was a single chance at happiness with him, I was determined to seize it.

Deanna Raybourn

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#18. In such societies it is common for ordinary people to seek out celibate spiritual leaders for marriage, love and sometimes sexual guidance. This strikes me as a particularly stupid kind of folly. Nobody ever asks a vegetarian for a recommendation for a steak house

Scott Andrews

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#19. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson

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#20. His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love for your lust! His peace for your problems! His joy for your sorrow! His plenty for your poverty!

Major Thomas

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#21. There can be there ought to be no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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#22. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

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#23. Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.
Another is Deity.
The choice to be a fool is yours.

Vera Nazarian

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#24. [I]t is the folly of a young man to believe that he can pick and choose between what Love and Power offer him, keeping only the Light and leaving behind the Shadows.

Peter Coyote

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#25. Vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Jane Austen

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#26. Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Charles Mackay

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#27. God and his love, and of multiple layers of human folly, which rings true at all kinds of levels of human knowledge and experience.

N. T. Wright

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#28. If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

William Shakespeare

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#29. The service of love is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there anything that will more deject his cool'd imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.

Thomas Browne

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#30. She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are the most easily disgusted with folly and weakness which is not of their own sort, and are the last to make allowances for them.

George MacDonald

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#31. Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.

Henry Cuyler Bunner

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#32. And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

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#33. What an absolute folly love was. Talk about a flawed concept.

Richard Russo

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#34. And writers say, as the most forward bud
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,
Even so by love the young and tender wit
Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,
Losing his verdure even in the prime,
And all the fair effects of future hopes.

William Shakespeare

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#35. Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

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#36. I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

Walter Scott

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#37. What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.

Teddy Crispin

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#38. Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.

Victor Hugo

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#39. That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

John Owen

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#40. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

William Shakespeare

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#41. Do you know what Hell is? ... No fire, no brimstone. Man in his infinite folly invented that to rob from his brothers their will. Hell is existing without Our Father. None of His love touches me.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#42. I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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#43. There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Henry Fielding

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#44. When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

E. M. Forster

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#45. Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him.

Melissa Marr

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#46. The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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#47. Smoked sausage and a jolly tupping. Ale and folly. Fickle bosoms and bar fights. That is the sum of experiences my souls gathered from their lives. Why do I attract all the unsophisticated fancy men? For once could one love the opera and his mother?
- Lucinda Myer, b. 1702-d. 1808

Amber Kizer

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