English proverbs about love. Quotes about love in English with translation

Legends are made about love, poems are written, songs are sung. Some lines become so popular that they are translated into many languages. This material presents quotes about love in English with translation into Russian. You will recognize some of them, and some will be a discovery for you.

Without many words

Sometimes something is said so briefly and clearly that there is nothing to add or subtract from. The following words from John Lennon from his song are very popular:

All you need is love.
All you need is love.

Beautiful short phrases about love in English are good because they are easy to remember, and therefore enrich your vocabulary. You can also add them to the status of a social network (thereby enlightening your friends and acquaintances a little).

Love lives forever. Love lives forever.

If you wish to be loved, love! If you want to be loved, love!
Seneca

Love is friendship set on fire. Love is friendship ignited by fire.
(Jeremy Taylor)

One love, one heart, one destiny. One love, one heart, one destiny.
Bob Marley

A couple of short English quotes about love from famous writers:

Real love stories never have endings.
True love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach

Let's speculate

Let's look at longer phrases about love in English that encourage thinking and reasoning. Translation into Russian will again help us in understanding them.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
The magic of first love is that we don't believe it will ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are never so defensive against suffering as when we love.
We are never as defenseless as when we love.
Sigmund Freud

Love is the most important thing in the world. It's all for love. L-O-V-E.
Love is the most important thing in the world. All for love. LOVE.
Michael Jackson

Thoughts from the famous Oscar Wilde:

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Keep love in your heart. Life without love is like a garden without the sun, all the flowers in which have withered.

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Loving yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

A few quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche:

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
An intelligent person should be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Marriages are unhappy not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of friendship.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is always a little madness in love. And in madness there is always a little wisdom.

To quote famous women:

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
Any woman is capable of fooling a man if she wants to and if he is in love with her.
Agatha Christie

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Courage is loving unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna

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Study of the concept of “love” in English proverbs and sayings

Introduction

The object of this study is the concept of “love” in English phraseological units, proverbs and sayings.

The purpose and objectives of this study.

The main goal of this study is to determine the place of the concept “love”, its semantic load and semantics of use.

A comparative study of phraseological units of different languages seems extremely important, since phraseology is the most valuable source of information about culture, stereotypes of national consciousness, reflecting the ideas of a particular people about morality, habits, rituals, the uniqueness of the surrounding world, etc., becoming the property of linguistic consciousness.

Russian and English proverbs and sayings have much in common in their basic conceptualizations. Linguistic specificity is expressed in the figurative content of these units and is associated with the cultural and national characteristics of the speakers of the languages under study.

Sociolinguistic monitoring as a research method makes it possible to trace what is the axiology of the ideas of a particular phraseological unit in the Russian and English languages, and how it is reflected in people’s minds. The monitoring results indicate, in general, the coincidence of the attitude of young people (Russians, English and Tatars) to various values/anti-values embedded in phraseological units, and also represent an asymmetry between the morality contained in linguistic units (phraseologisms, proverbs, sayings) and opinion modern people, which belongs to the field of axiological pluralism.

The research material was based on the data of currently available dictionaries of Russian and English phraseology, explanatory dictionaries of Russian and English languages, translated, bilingual, as well as special ones: semantic, associative, ideographic mythological dictionary of the Russian language, dictionary of phraseological synonyms, figurative expressions of the Russian language, dictionary of proverbs and sayings, etymological dictionaries of the studied languages, frequency, etc., works of classics of Russian and English literature.

As necessary, dictionaries of related disciplines were also used: philosophical, sociological, psychological, dictionaries on ethics, etc.

Aspects of the use of the concept “love” in English phraseological units, proverbs, sayings

proverb Russian English linguistic culture

The area of moral feelings is the most extensive and is characterized by increased variability, applicability of various emotional states, and the presence of numerous experiences.

The phraseosemantic subgroup “Love” consists of anthropocentric phraseological units, the main part of which in Russian and English conveys the highest degree of intensity of this mental state: rus. lose/lose your head; English be death on - to be mortally in love. Researcher of the concept “Love” S.G. Vorkachev found that in English proverbs there are about 170 units associated with the concept of love, in Russian - about 220, which indicates less interest in this feeling of English paremiological consciousness [Vorkachev 2003: 23-95].

In English proverbs and sayings, several aspects of the use of the concept “love” can be distinguished.

1. The main part of Russian and English phraseological units of this subgroup is united by linguocultures, distinguished on the basis of basic images: heart (symbol of love) and head (symbol of reason): Russian. give heart; English lose one "s heart to smb. (lit. lose a heart); Russian. lose one's head; English. go off about/over one"s head (lit. remove one's head). In Russian phraseological units, the soul component is also used: to dote on the soul - to love someone very much, limitlessly.

2. A high degree of love in languages manifests itself as a willingness to die for it: Russian. love (to death); English be death on - fall in love to death. In Russian phraseological units, the state of falling in love corresponds to the image of fire: rus. burn with love; and in English - the image of the depths of the sea: be fathoms deep in love.

3. Often there is such an aspect as the fragility, unfaithfulness of love, its changeability and unreliability. When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window - When poverty comes through the door, love flies out the window; Love is blind - Love is blind; Love me little, love me long - Love me not much, but for a long time. An adequate Russian equivalent is the colloquial “There was love, but it floated away.”

4. Another aspect of the concept of love in English phraseological units is the aspect of strong affection, tenderness and devotion. He who loves a tree loves every branch of it - Not that loves the tree, loves the branch; If you love me, love my dog too - Love me, love my dog.

5. The presence of a certain amount of fatalism. No herb will cure love. This phraseological unit can be viewed from two points of view. The first is, in fact, fatalism; nothing can be done about this love, if it has already come. From this point of view, the Russian analogue can be “Love is evil - you will love a goat”; on the other hand, this proverb speaks of love as an incurable disease, as something that brings not so much joy as suffering. This point of view is very characteristic of the Russian mentality: “Darling is not a villain, but will dry you to the bone”; “Even though love is torment, without it there is boredom.”

6. A very common aspect of the concept of “love,” probably in any language, including Russian and English, is the aspect of the enormous power of love, its invincibility. Love is stronger than death - Love is stronger than death; the concept of “death” is often found next to the concept of “love”, sometimes it acts as an antagonism - love and death, good and evil; sometimes - as an enhancement - to love to death - to love deadly. Love moves the world - It is love that makes the world go around; Love will find a way - Love will find a way; Love conquers all - Love conquers all; Love laughs at locksmiths - Love laughs at locksmiths;

7. An indispensable attribute of love (“true love”) is always honesty, nobility, incorruptibility and selflessness. Love cannot be bought - Love is not found in the market; Love lives in cottages as well as in courts; with a cute paradise and in a hut - Love in a cottage.

8. Signs of “separation”. In the Russian mentality, love is closely connected not only with suffering, but also with separation, by which it is tested and which is also its indispensable attribute: In English there are also proverbs with a similar meaning: The less you see, the more you love - Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

9. Love for children is characterized by English proverbs with the ornitonyms crow “crow”, owl “owl”: The crow thinks her own birds fairest (whitest) (lit. The crow believes that her children are the most beautiful), The owl thinks her own young fairest (lit. Owl believes that her children are the best).

This series of aspects can be continued almost indefinitely, since the concept of “love” itself has an unlimited number of meanings, and perceptions at the level of an individual people, a speaker of a particular language, and even more. At all times, love is seen as happiness, and suffering, and deception and honesty, and reward, and punishment, and fidelity and betrayal.

A review of the signs of love indicates the extreme inconsistency of the perception of this moral feeling by the paremiological consciousness of man. Opposite assessments: love is both selfless and mercantile, it is the highest value and evil, it is never forgotten and quickly becomes boring, people fall in love with appearance and love personality, love blinds and sees everything.

A comparison of the semantic features of the concept “love”, presented in the English language and consciousness, shows that the features are presented here in full and create a generalized image of love.

Thus, love is a feeling, an attitude, an action in the broad sense of the word; it has a subject and an object; there is a beginning, development and an end (and the culmination can probably be considered recognition); There are typical ways of manifestation, enshrined in culture.

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - What you dream about alone is just a dream. What you dream about together is reality. (John Lennon)
The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that. - The heart wants what it wants. There is no logic in this. You meet someone, you fall in love - and that's it. (Woody Allen)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” - Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. - It is better to love and lose than not to love at all. (Ernest Hemingway)

To love is not to look at one another, but to look together in the same direction. – Love is not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” (Erich Fromm)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Love is a flame. But you can never predict whether she will warm your heart or burn your house down. (Joan Crawford)
If you wish to be loved, love! – If you want to be loved, love! (Seneca)
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. - We are born alone, live alone and die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create for a moment the illusion that we are not alone. (Orson Welles)
Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. - Other men say they saw angels, but I saw you - and that’s enough for me. (George Moore)
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. - Loving and winning are the best things in life. Loving and losing is next to that. (William Thackeray)
People should fall in love with their eyes closed. - People should fall in love with their eyes closed (Andy Warhol)
True love stories never have endings. - Real love stories have no endings. (Richard Bach)
We loved with a love that was more than love. - We loved with a love that was something more than love. (Edgar Allan Poe)
One love, one heart, one destiny. - One love, one heart, one destiny. (Bob Marley)
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Under the influence of love, everyone becomes a poet. (Plato)
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Falling in love with yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Oscar Wilde)
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. “The way to love something is to realize that you can lose it.” (Gilbert Chesteron)
Love is being stupid together. – Love is fooling around together. (Paul Valerie)
Love is a game that two can play and both win. – Love is a game that two can play, and both can win. (Eva Gabor)
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. – Friendship often ends in love. Love is never friendship. (Charles Caleb Colton)
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. “The only thing you can never have enough of is love.” And the only thing we never give enough of is love too. (Henry Miller)
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. – Trying to extinguish the flame of love with words is like lighting a fire with snow. (William Shakespeare)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Gravity has nothing to do with the fact that people fall in love. (Albert Einstein)
Love: Two minds without a single thought. – Love is two minds without a single thought. (Philip Barry)
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you are sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – I am selfish, impatient and not entirely reliable. I make mistakes, I lose control, and at times I am difficult to handle. But if you can't stand my worst traits, then rest assured that you don't deserve the best. (Marilyn Monroe)
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. – Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. (Oscar Wilde)
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. “If anyone thinks that love and peace are a cliché that should stay in the sixties, then that’s their problem.” Love and peace are eternal. (John Lennon)
To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return. – Courage is loving unconditionally without expecting anything in return. (Madonna)
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. – Marriages are unhappy not because of a lack of love, but because of a lack of friendship. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Someone’s sincere love for you gives you strength, and your sincere love for someone gives you courage. (Lao Tzu)
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Keep love in your heart. Life without love is a garden without the sun, all the flowers in which have withered. (Oscar Wilde)
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. – The slightest drop of hope is enough for the birth of love. (Stendhal)
Fortune and love favor the brave. – Luck and love favor the brave. (Ovid)

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