Rudyard Kipling Quotes

I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

Like a force of nature love can fade with the stars at dawn...

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

Love wears off too quickly.

There's beggary in love that can be reckoned

If you love a waist, you waste a love.

You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.

Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

I'd found love -- only to discover how fleeting it can be.

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.