One Hundred Ways to Say, I Love You

One Hundred Ways to Say, I Love You

With expressions of the richness of love, each in its own unigue ways, it will inspire
you to put your own sentiments into words, and as a giftto a beloved one, it will say, I
love you

hope you find it useful

In vain have I Struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not repressed. You must allow me to tell how ardently I admire and love you

Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
1813

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelights
I love thee freely, as men strive for right
I love thee purely, as men turn from Praise
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-61

You glow in my heart
Like the flames of uncounted candles
But when I go to warm my hands
My clumsiness overturns the light
And then I stumble
Against the tables and chairs

Amy Lowell
1874-1925

Pray, madam, don't put me to the expence of vows and oaths. I hate swearing under my hand. I love you in plaindownright terms

George Farquhar, playwright, to Mrs. C
c. 1707

,I have a cheese upon the shelf
;I cannot eat it all myself
,I have three good marks that lie in a rag
:In the nook of the chimney instead of a bag
?Say my Joan, say my Joaney, will that not do
.I cannot come every day to woo

,Anonymous
"The Ploughman's Wooing"

When you were a little child, as a boy i worshiped you: then when I saw you a comely girl, as a stripling I adored you: now you are a full-grown maiden, all the rest I do, and more - I love youmore than tongue can tell, or heart can hold in silence

,John Ridd to Lorna
,Lorna Doone
,by Richard Blackmore
1869

,Come live with me, and be my love
,And we will all the pleasure prove
,That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields
.Woods or steepy mountain yeilds

,Christopher Marlowe
1564-93

Dear, Lovely Mrs. Scurlock, I have been in a very good company, where your unknown name, under the character of a woman I loved best, has been often drunk; so that I may say I am dead drunk for your sake, which is more than, I die for you

,Richard Steele, essayist, to his future wife, Mary
1707

,If 'tis love to wish you near
,To tremble when the wind I hear
;Because at sea you floating rove
,If of you to dream at night
,To languish when you're out of sight
.If this be loving, then I love

,Charles Dibin
1745-1814

Words fail me ej.aculated Bernard horsly my passion for you is intense he added fervently ... When will you marry me Ethel he utterred you must be my wife it has come to that I love you so intensly that if you say no I shall perforce dash y body to the brinl of yon muddy river he panted wildly

,Bernard to Ethel
,The Young Visiters
,by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford
1919

.I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Lov'd I not Honour more

,Sir Richard Lovelace
1618-57

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence for ever

,Jane to Mr. Rochester
,Jane Eyre
,by Charlotte Bronte
1847

(I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart

,E. E. Cummings
1894-1962

I love you, Livy, - indeed I do love you Livy ... I love you beyond all expression, Livy - it is strange I never thought to tell you before. But I do love you, darling

,Mark Twain, writer, to his future wife, Olivia Langdon
1869

Having for several sundays had the pleasure of sitting near you in church I have been deeply impressed with a passionate love for you. My thoughts during the service are so wholly engrossed with your charms that I am afraid I require the forgiveness of heaven as well as of yourself

:The Penny Love Letter Writer
,A Comlete Guide to Correspondence
1883

Love is my religion - I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet. You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist

,John Keats, poet
,to Fanny Brawne
1819

,I can give you what men call love
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
...And the heavens reject not

,Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822

It is you that I lose myself for all eternity, and I have no further desires beyond this ineffable communion. To thee, then, in thee and for thee

,Leon Gambetta, statesman
,to Leonie Leon
1879

,But if thou wilt prove faithful then
,And constant of thy word
,I'll make thee glorious by my pen
...And famous by my sword

,Marquis Of Montrose
1612-50

There is nothing so unalterable in my heart as the intention of serving your glory; that would be glorious to me beyond all else, and I would consider it a very great victory if I could do anything that would be pleasing to you and remain acceptable to your Grace

,Nobleman to noblewoman
,The Art of Courtly Love
,by Andreas Cappellanus
c. 1180

May soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone

,William Congreve, playwright
,to Mrs. Arabella Hunt
c. 1690

,As fair art thou, my bonnie lass
,So deep in love am I
,And I will love thee still, my dear
...Till a' the seas gang dry

,Robert Burns
1759-96

At last you are mine! Soon - in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thoughts at all moments, all your looks will be for me; all my thoughts, all my moments, all my lookswill be for you

,Victor Hugo, novelist
,to his future wife, Adele Fouchet
1822

,My bounty is as boundless as the sea
,My love as deep; the more I give to thee
.The more I have, for both are infinite

,Juliet to Romeo
,Romeo and Juliet
,by William Shakespear
1596

As I ponder and think on you, chlorides, trails, oil, Davy, steel, miscellanea, mercury, and fifty other professional fancies swim before and drive me further and further into the quandary of stupidness

,Michael Faraday, scientist
,to his future wife
,Sarah Barnard
1820

,Ye know my heart, my lady dear
That since the time I was your thrall
,I have been yours both whole and clear
.Though my reward hath been but small
.So am I yet and more than all

,Thomas Wyatt
1503-42

.I swear I will my whole heart and think my life well spent if it can make thine happy

,Thomas Carlyle, historian
,to his future wife
,Jane welsh
1826

;Earth with her flowers shall sooner heaven adorn
;Heaven her bright stars, though earth's dim globe shall move
;Fire, heat shall lose; and frosts, of flames be born
;Air, made to shine, as black as hell shall prove
,Earth, heaven, fire, air, the world transformed shall view
!Ere I prove false to faith or strange to you

,John Dowland
1563-1626

I consecrate to you my entire life, the wit I may possess, the faculties, the physical and moral forces, in exchange for this friendship so insufficient but so precious

,Benjamin Constant, writer
,to Jeanne Recamier
1815

,Beloved, in the noisy city here
The thought of thee can make all turmoil cease
...Around my spirit

,James Russell Lowell
1819-91

I worshipped the magnificence and the love of the God of Nature, and I thought of you; these two sensation always arise in my heart in the quiet of a rural landscape, and I have often considered it a proof of the purity and the reality of my affection for you, that it always feels most powerful in my religious moments

,Leigh Hunt, essayist
,to his future wife
,Marianne Kent
1806

I love thee for the fickleness
;And great inconstancy
,For hadst thou been a constant lass
.Then thou hadst ne'er loved me

,Anonymous
17th Century Poet

I have many reasons to make me love thee whereof I will name two; first because thou lovest God, and secondly because that thou lovest me. If these were wanting, all the rest would be eclipsed

,Margaret Winthrop to John Winthrop
;American puritan leader
1627

,I love not for those eyes, nor hair
,Nor cheeks, nor lips, nor teeth so rare
,Nor for thy speech, thy neck, nor breast
,Nor for thy belly, nor the rest
:Nor for thy hand, nor foot so small
.But, wouldst thou know, dear sweet, for all

,Thomas Carew
1595-1639

Thou art beautiful, O my love... Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me; thy hair ia a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them

,The Song of Soloman
Holy Bible

Why do i love? Go, ask the glorious sun
...Why every day it round the world doth run
:There is no reasonfor our love and hate
.Tis irresistible, as death or fate'

,Ephelia
seventeenth century

Ask me no reason why I love you ... You are not young, no mare am I; go to then, there's sympathy; you are merry, so am I; ha! ha! then, there's more sympathy; you love sack and so do I; would you desire better sympathy

,Sir John Falstaff to Mistress Anne Page
,The Merry Wives of Windsor
,by William Shakespeare
1597

.Places that are empty of you are empty of all life

,Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet
to Jane Morris
1870

,When thy soft accents
,through mine ear
,Into my soul do fly
What angel would not quit his sphere
?To hear such harmony

,Thomas Stanley
1625-78