Latin Love Quotes & Phrases

Ad eorum memoriam quos valde amo - In memory of those I love.
Aegra amans - Lover's sickness.
Ama, honora atque oboedi in aeternum - Love, Honor and obey forever.
Amabit sapiens, cupient caeteri - Wise men love, others are mere lechers.
Amans iratus multa mentitur sibi - An angry lover tells himself many lies.
Amantes sunt amentes - Lovers are lunatics. (Terence)
Amantium irae, amoris integratio est - The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. (Terence)
Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur - Even a god finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
Ames parentem, si aequus est; si aliter, feras - Love your father, if he is just; if he is otherwise, bear with him. (Publilius Syrus)
Ammor magnus doctor est - Love is a great teacher. (St. Augustine)
Amor aeternus - Love forever.
Amor animi arbitrio sumitur, non ponitur - We choose to love, we do not choose to cease loving. (Publilius Syrus)
Amor caecus est - Love is blind.
Amor est vitae essentia - Love is the essence of life. (Robert B. Mackay)
Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus - Love is rich with both honey and venom. (Plautus)
Amor gignit amorem - Love creates love.
Amor habendi - Love of possessing.
Amor in aeternum - Always love.
Amor non discitur, amor cognoscitur, sed id non animadvertis donec amorem invenis - Love is not something you learn, love is something you know, but do not realise until you find it.
Amor nummi - Love of money.
Amor occidit - Love kills.
Amor ordinem nescit - Love does not know order. (St. Jerome)
Amor patriae nostra lex - Love of the fatherland is our law.
Amor patriae - Love of one's country.
Amor platonicus - Platonic love.
Amor proximi - Love of one's neighbour.
Amor sceleratus habendi - Accursed love of possessing. (Ovid)
Amor tussisque non celantur - Love, and a cough, are not concealed. (Ovid)
Amor vincit omnia; et nos cedamus amori - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. (Virgil)
Amore donatum - Bestowed in love.
Amore, more, ore, re - (With) love, behaviour, words, actions. (Virgil)
Amorem omnino sequere - Give all to love. (Emerson)
Amori finem tempus, non animus facit - Time, not the mind, puts an end to love.
Amori omnino indulge - Give all to love. (Emerson)
Amoris vulnis idem sanat qui facit - The wounds of love are cured by love itself.
Cacus amor prolis - Love of one's offspring is blind.
Charitas non quaerit quae sua sunt - Love does not seek things for itself.
Cibum amo! - I love food!
Cras amet qui nunquam amavit; quique amavit, cras amet - May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well.
Crecitur amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crevit - The richer you beome the more you love money. (Juvenal)
Credite amori vera dicenti - Believe love speaking the truth. (St. Jerome)
Credula res amore est - Love is a credulous thing. (Ovid)
Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crevit - The love of wealth grows as the wealth itself grows. (Juvenal)
Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque - All men do not admire and love the same things. (Horace)
Deus caritas est - God is Love.
Dicere quae puduit, scribere iussit amor - What (modesty) forbade me to say, love has commanded me to write. (Ovid)
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem - It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. (Catullus)
Dulcis amor patriae - Sweet is the love of one's country.
Eis quos amo - For those that I love.
Et magnas et parvas omnes ama creaturas - Love all creatures great and small.
Etiam in morte, perdurat amor - In death, love prevails.
Exinctus amabitur idem - The same one will be loved after he's dead.
Fabulae amatoriae - Love stories. (Often with tragic plots)
Ferrea non venerem sed praedam saecula laudant - The iron age celebrates not love but the acquisition of material possessions.
Fide et amore - By faith and love.
Hoc die magnus mortuus est amor - On this date, a great love died.
Humanum amarest, humanum autem ignoscerest - It is human to love, it is also human to forgive. (Plautus)
In fide ambulabimus, in fide inter nos amabimus, in fide semper vivemus - In faith we walk, in faith we love, and in faith we will live forevermore.
In luce vive, vive in amore - Live in light, live in love.
In meae felis memoriam quam plus oculis meis amabam - In memory of my cat, whom I loved more than my eyes.
Intellectum valde amat - Love the intellect strongly. (St. Augustine)
Inter nos perdite amare volumus - We agreed to love each other madly.
Interfice errorem, diligere errantem - Kill the sin, love the sinner. (St. Augustine)
Mater mea ac pater probitatis, intergritatis, aeterni sunt amoris effigies atque imago - My mother and my father are the expression of honesty, integrity, eternal love.
Me cognoscis, ergo me amas - To know me is to love me.
Meminerunt omnia amantes - Lovers remember all.
Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua - What a woman says to her fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. (Catullus)
Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest - No one is able to flee from death or love.
Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci - I don't think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven't done anything really silly yet.
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam - I did not love, even if I yearned to love.
Nota bene, vive mente corde ama - Live rationally, but love passionately.
Numquam periit amor - Love never dies.
Nunc et semper te valde amabo - I will love you very much now and forever.
Nunc scio quid sit amor - Now I know what love is. (Virgil)
Odi et amo! - I love (her), and I hate (her)! (Catullus)
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio. Sed fieri sentio et excrucior - I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask me why. I don't know. But I feel, tormented, that it is so. (Catullus)
Odio excellentia affici melius est quam mediocritate amari - Better hated for being great than loved for being average.
Patris erga filias amor numquam morietur - A father's love for his Daughters will never die?
Puri sermonis amator - A lover of pure speech. (Terence)
Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur - He whom the gods love dies young. (Only the good die young) (Plautus)
Qui me amat, amat et canem meam - Love me, love my dog.
Quique amavit, cras amet - May he love tomorrow who has never loved before.
Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit - Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. (Seneca)
Qvi bene amat bene castigat - Who loves well castigates well. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Qvi me amat, amat et canem meam - Who loves me loves my dog as well. (Love me love my dog)
Requiescat in pace et in amore - May he rest in peace and love.
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt - You know, the Romans invented the art of love.
Sempiternus amor - Forever love.
Si vis amari, ama - If you want to be loved, love. (Seneca)
Sine amore, nihil est vita - Without love, life is pointless.
Te Amo - I Love You.
Te valde amo ac semper amabo - I love you very much, and always will forever.
Tempus amoris cubiculum non est - The time for love is not in the bedroom.
Trovommi amor del tutto disarmato - Love found me completely disarmed.
Ubi amor, ibi dolor - Where there is love, there is pain.
Ubi amor, ibi oculus - Where love is, there is insight.
Ubi amor, ibi patria - Where is my love, there is my country.
Ut ameris, ama! - To be loved, love!
Ut ameris, amabilis esto - Be amiable, then you'll be loved.
Verus amicus amore more ore re cognoscitur - True friend becomes known in the love, the disposition, the speeches, the deeds. (Virgil)
Vitam ama quia mors sequitur - Love life because death follows.
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus - Let us love, my Lesbia, and let us love. (Catullus)
Vive mente, corde ama - Live with your head (or, 'mind'), but love with your heart.