“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
More from Dorothy Parker on Love
“Scratch a lover and find a foe.”
“Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.”
“And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.”
“Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.”
“Some men break your heart in two,Some men fawn and flatter,Some men never look at you;And that cleans up the matter.”
“Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.”
“By the time you swear you're his,Shivering and sighing.And he vows his passion is,Infinite, undying.Lady make note of this --One of you is lying.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”