♡ The Best English quotes about love ♡

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The Best English quotes about love:

1. ‘A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.’ -Max Muller
2. ‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ – Charles Dickens
3. ‘A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.’ – Brendan Francis
4. ‘Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.’ – Jeanne Moreau
5. ‘Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever – only, nothing is eternal.’ – Audre Lorde 
6. ‘Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.’ – Franz Kafka
7. ‘First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.’ – George Bernard Shaw
8. ‘He is not a lover who does not love forever.’ – Euripides
9. ‘Him that I love, I wish to be free – even from me.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
10. ‘I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.’ – Arthur Rubinstein
11. ‘I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.’ – Leo Christopher
12. ‘If I know what love is, it is because of you.’ – Hermann Hesse
13. ‘If music be the food of love, play on.’ – William Shakespeare
14. ‘If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
15. ‘If you love it enough, anything will talk with you.’ – George Washington Carver
16. ‘In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.’ – Theodor Reik
17. ‘In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing.’ – Jack Kornfield
18. ‘It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.’ – Andre Gide 
19. ‘It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
20. ‘It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.’ – Vladimir Nabokov
21. ‘Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.’ – Lao Tzu
22. ‘Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.’ – Marge Piercy
23. ‘Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
24. ‘Love is a better master than duty.’ – Albert Einstein
25. ‘Love is a game that two can play and both win.’ – Eva Gabor
26. ‘Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.’ – Moliere
27. ‘Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.’ – Paulo Coehlo
28. ‘Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.’ – Thornton Wilder
29. ‘Love is friendship set on fire.’ -Jeremy Taylor
30. ‘Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.’ – Andre Breton
31. ‘Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.’ Henry David Thoreau
32. ‘Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.’ Mary Oliver
33. ‘Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.’ -Rabindranath Tagore
34. ‘Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.’ Barbara De Angelis
35. ‘Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.’ Maya Angelou
36. ‘One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.’ Sophocles
37. ‘Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.’ -Tammy Wynette
38. ‘The giving of love is an education in itself.’ -Eleanor Roosevelt
39. ‘There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.’ -Thomas Fuller
40. ‘To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.’ – T. Tolis
41. ‘True love stories never have endings.’ Richard Bach
42. ‘Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.’ -Emily Dickinson
43. ‘Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.’ E.E. Cummings
44. ‘We accept the love we think we deserve.’ -Stephen Chbosky
45. ‘We love because it’s the only true adventure.’ -Nikki Giovanni
46. ‘We love the things we love for what they are.’ -Robert Frost
47. ‘We must love one another or die.’ W. H. Auden
48. ‘When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.’ -Helen Hunt Jackson
49. ‘When love is not madness, it is not love.’ -Pedro Calderon de la Barca
50. ‘You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.’ – Jodi Picoult

 

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Quotes about travel and adventure

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Quotes about travel and adventure:

1. ‘A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.’ – Tim Cahill
2. ‘A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.’ – Lao Tzu
3. ‘A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.’ – John Steinbeck
4. ‘A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.’ – Lao Tzu
5. ‘A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.’ – Moslih Eddin Saadi
6. ‘A wise traveler never despises his own country.’ – Carlo Goldoni
7. ‘Adventure is worthwhile in itself.’ – Amelia Earhart
8. ‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.’ – Martin Buber
9. ‘Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.’ – Marcel Proust
10. ‘Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.’ – Shane Koyczan
11. ‘He who would travel happily must travel light.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
12. ‘I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.’ – Mary Anne Radmache
13. ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.’ – Lewis Carroll
14. ‘It is not down in any map; true places never are.’ – Herman Melville
15. ‘Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.’ – Neale Donald Walsch
16. ‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.’ – Helen Keller
17. ‘Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.’ – Benjamin Disraeli
18. ‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gide
19. ‘Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.’ – Ernest Hemingway
20. ‘No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.’ – Chuck Thompson
21. ‘Not all those who wander are lost.’ – J. R. R. Tolkien
22. ‘One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.’ – Charles Dickens
23. ‘One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.’ – Thomas Jefferson
24. ‘One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things’ – Henry Miller
25. ‘People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.’ – Dagobert D. Runes
26. ‘Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.’ – Erol Ozan
27. ‘The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.’ – Rudyard Kipling
28. ‘The journey not the arrival matters.’ – T. S. Eliot
29. ‘The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.’ – Anna Quindlen
30. ‘The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.’ – Wallace Stevens
31. ‘The road is there, it will always be there. You just have to decide when to take it.’ – Chris Humphrey
32. ‘The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton
33. ‘The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.’ – St. Augustine
34. ‘There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson
35. ‘There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.’ – Charles Dudley Warner
36. ‘To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.’ – Freya Stark
37. ‘To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.’ – Aldous Huxley
38. ‘Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.’ – Paul Theroux
39. ‘Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.’ – Seneca
40. ‘Travel brings power and love back into your life.’ – Rumi
41. ‘Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.’ – Lawrence Durrell
42. ‘Travel is like knowledge, the more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen’ – Mark Hertsgaad
43. ‘Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.’ – Ibn Battuta
44. ‘Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.’ – Robert Frost
45. ‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.’ – Anais Nin
46. ‘We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.’ – Hilaire Belloc
47. ‘Where curious and curiosity keep leading us down new paths’ – Walt Disney
48. ‘Wherever you go, go with all your heart.’ – Confucius
49. ‘Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.’ – Frank Herbert
50. ‘You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.’ – Kirsten Hubbard

 

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Idioms and phrases in English with colors

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IDIOMS AND PHRASES	MEANINGS
A blue-eyed boy	A critical description of a boy or young man who is always chosen for special favours by someone in a position of superior authority.
A bolt from the blue	When unexpected bad news is received
A golden handshake	A significant amount of money that is paid to a retiring manager or administrator, or to a laid-off worker.
A golden opportunity	An opportunity that may never come up again.
A grey area	Something that is not clearly defined, and there is still a debate about whether it is “black or white” in one way or another.
A highly coloured report	Refers to a report that is exaggerated or has a biased opinion.
A red flag	A signal indicating that something is not working properly or is not working properly
A white lie	A “small” lie or a “harmless” lie told in order to be polite and avoid hurting someone’s feelings, or doing something that is not seriously wrong.
A yellow streak	Someone who has cowardice in his character
As white as a sheet	When someone is in a state of great fear or anxiety
Beet red	Also used to describe dark red, usually the colour of a face (beet derivative).
Black and blue	Used to describe something that is seriously wounded
Black as a skillet	Used to describe something very dirty, black with dirt.
Black as night	In a very dark place, when it is difficult to see anything.
Black eye	A bruise near the eye
Black market	A term used to refer to places where goods are purchased and sold illegally for profit.
Black out	This means either obscuring by turning off or obscuring the lights or losing consciousness.
Black sheep	Used to describe a person who is the “weird person” in a group, and who does not integrate with others around her. It could also be used to talk about a person who is a shame or embarrassment to his or her group.
Black tie event/affair	A formal event where male guests wear black bow ties with tuxedos or evening jackets.
Blackball someone	Exclude or ostracize someone socially, reject them.
Blacklist someone	Put someone’s name on a list if they break rules and prohibit them from participating again.
Blackmail someone	Extorting or taking money from someone by using their secrets against them and threatening to reveal them to others.
Blood red	Used to describe the dark red color of something
Blue blood	Used to describe someone from a noble, aristocratic or rich family.
Blue collar	Used to describe men used as workers or factory workers.
Blue in the face	Try very hard to win someone’s agreement, but usually without success.
Blue pencil	To censor something, or limit the information that is shared
Blue ribbon	To be of superior quality or distinction, the best of a group
Born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth	born into a rich family
Browned off	Being bored or bored with someone or something
Catch someone red-handed	Catching someone committing a crime or doing something wrong that they shouldn’t be doing.
Chase rainbows	When someone tries to get or achieve something that is difficult or impossible
Dyed-in-the-wool	Used to describe someone or something that is permanent (such as wool that is dyed a certain color).
Feel blue	When a person seems or feels depressed or dissatisfied
Golden boy	Term given to a young man idolized for great skill, usually in sport.
Grass is always greener on the other side	Used to describe a distant place, and better than, where you are now, or the situation of another person who is very different from yours.
Green belt	An area of fields and trees around a city
Green thumb/green finger	Used to describe someone with a talent for gardening, with the ability to grow plants.
Green with envy	Used to describe someone who is extremely jealous, full of envy
In someone’s black books	To be in disgrace or disgrace with someone.
In the black	Meaning successful or profitable
Local colour	Allows to describe the traditional characteristics of a place that give it its own character.
Men/boys in blue	Used to describe the police, because of the color of their uniforms.
Off colour	When someone is not feeling at his best, is very sick or uncomfortable
Once in a blue moon	Occur extremely rarely, or only once in a lifetime.
Out of the blue	Appearing out of nowhere without any warning, occurring suddenly or randomly by surprise
Paint the town red	To go out and have a good time at a party.
Pitch black	Another term for somewhere that is very dark, and you are unable to see anything.
Pot calling the kettle black (shorten version: pot kettle black)	It is used when the person who hypocritically criticizes or accuses someone else is as guilty as the person he or she is criticizing or accusing.
Put something down in black and white	Write or have written something on paper for confirmation or proof.
Raise a white flag	This indicates that we have accepted the defeat and surrendered to the other party.
Red herring	An unimportant subject that misleads everyone and distracts attention from the main subject.
Red hot	Something new and exciting, creating a lot of demand
Red in the face	Become embarrassed
Red tape	A term used to refer to bureaucratic delays, excessive formalities and attention to rules and regulations, which often result in injustice to the ordinary citizen.
Red-carpet treatment	(Similar to the one above) To receive special or royal treatment, and to be received with a great and warm welcome.
Red-eye	A trip that leaves late at night and arrives early in the morning.
Red-letter day	A memorable day due to an important event
Roll out the red carpet	Welcome a person with great respect and give them a warm and welcoming welcome.
Sail under false colours	Pretend to be something you’re not
See someone’s true colours	Understand a person’s real character, often for the first time.
See the colour of someone’s money	To prove that someone has enough money for something
Talk a blue streak	When someone talks a lot and very quickly
The silver screen	A term for cinema
To be colourless	Used to describe someone who lacks personality, and who is really boring
To be given something on a silver plate/platter	When something is offered to someone with all my heart (in a metaphorical sense)
To be green	Used to describe someone who is immature or inexperienced.
To be in the red	To have an overdraft, be in debt to your bank or owe money to a financial institution
To be kept in the dark	Keeping someone’s secret, protecting the truth
To be out of the red	To be free from debt
To be shown the red card	This stems from football terminology, and means being fired from your work.
To give/lend colour to	To help make a story or explanation more credible and easier to believe, or to accompany something
To look through rose-coloured/tinted spectacles/glasses	When someone sees things in a way that is too flattering or optimistic.
To paint in bright/dark colours	Describe something flattering (bright) or unflattering (dark)
To see red	Reacting with uncontrollable rage against someone or something
To see the red light	Recognize the approaching danger. The red light is referred to as
To show one’s true colours	Reveal your true nature
White as a ghost	someone who is very pale because of pain, fear, shock or disease.
White collar	A term used to refer to office workers who traditionally wear a white white-collar shirt.
White elephant	A term used to describe unnecessary possession, something that is useless.
Whitewash something	To conceal or conceal wrongdoing or wrongdoing
With flying colours	Complete something with a lot of distinction and excellent results.
Yellow-bellied	Someone who is considered a coward or extremely shy

 

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Useful english expressions: War and conflict

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WAR AND CONFLICT

a loose cannon

a No man’s land

a score to settle

an uphill battle

Arrow in the quiver

At daggers drawn

At gunpoint

Axe to grind

Battle of nerves

Bite the bullet

Bring a knife to a gunfight

Bury the hatchet

Close ranks

Cross swords

Dodge the bullet

Don’t shoot the messenger

Double-edged sword

Drop a bombshell

fight fire with fire

fight tooth and nail

Hang fire / Hold fire

hold your ground

In your sights

Knight in shining armour

Lock and load

Long shot

Off like a shot

Off your guard

on the warpath

Open old wounds

Pull the trigger

Quick on the trigger

To get the final word

To have more than one string to their bow

To jump the gun

To make peace

To pull the trigger

To throw in the sponge

wash your dirty linen in public

 

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Common English phrases: Forgetting things

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FORGETTING THINGS

Can you refresh my memory?

I can’t remember off the top of my head

I have a vague recollection of…

I have no recollection of…

I lost my train of thought.

I simply forgot to do it.

I’ve completely forgotten.

I’m not sure i’m the best person to answer that

it completely slipped my mind.

it doesn’t ring a bell.

it went in one ear and out the other.

it will come to me in a minute

it’s on the tip of my tongue.

My mind went blank

Sorry, I forgot.

What was I thinking of?

(I’m afraid) I can’t remember.

(I’m afraid) it doesn’t ring a bell.

(Sorry) I have no memory of…

 

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Useful English sentences: Guessing things

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GUESSING THINGS

About 6-ish

Around / about 10 o’clock

At a guess, I’d say she’s 24.

Chances are she’s 24.

I’d say she’s 23.

If I had to take a guess, I’d say he’s 25

Knowing (the Brazilians), he likes football.

Off the top of my head, I think she’s 29.

Probably about 26.

We’re talking maybe late twenties.

 

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How to write a cover letter in English

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HOW TO WRITE A COVER LETTER

Dear Sir or Madam

I would like to apply for the position of…

Although I have no previous experience in…, I have had…

As indicated in your advertisement…

As you can see from my enclosed résumé, my experience and qualifications match this position’s requirements.

As you will see in the enclosed CV, I have a good experience in sales…

Currently I am working for… and my responsibilities include…

I look forward to hearing from you soon. / Yours faithfully,

I am an experienced user of…

I am available for an interview

I am aware of

I am particularly interested in this job, as…

I am sending my resume as an attachment.

I am writing in response to your advertisement posted on…

I am writing to you about your advertisement.

I am writing to you in reference to your advertisement.

I am writing to you to apply for the position of….

I believe it is time for me to move to another company / department … like yours

I believe my qualifications match your requirements

I believe my qualifications would match your requirements.

I have …years experience of working…

I have an excellent command of…

I have worked as a … (/in) ….

I wish to apply for the post of…which you advertised in…on… .

I would define myself as a …..

I’ll do my best to…

In addition to my responsibilities as…, I also developed…skills.

In my current position I have worked … developed… created …

My area of expertise is…

My strengths are…

Please find my résumé / CV attached / enclosed.

Should you be interested in my application…

Should you need further information.

To carry out an internship

To have a sense of responsibility

To speak fluent English

To Whom It May Concern …

Your advertisement in (source) for the position of ( job) sparked my interest.

Yours faithfully,

Kind/Best regards,

 

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English useful phrases: Talking about time and space

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TALKING ABOUT TIME AND SPACE

He’s always on the move.

all over the place

all roads lead to Rome

He vanished into thin air.

He was pacing back and forth

in high places

It’s just a stone throw away.

It’s just on our doorstep.

it’s a small world

Rome was not built in a day

Scatered to the four winds.

the old world

The place was bursting at the seams.

There wasn’t a soul to be seen in the street.

there’s a time and place for everything

To be walking single file.

to come to the right place

To pull up stakes.

To sleep under the stars.

We came the long way around.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do

 

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How to talk about the future in English

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HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE

It’s going to happen (quite / very) soon.

..will happen in our lifetimes

All right, I’ll get on it.

Any second / minute / day now,

Are you doing anything tomorrow?

As soon as I can.

Before long,

Busy tomorrow?

Economic recovery is just around the corner.

Eventually,…

Everything Tom predicted came true.

Go outside first thing in the morning when you wake up

Got any plans for tomorrow?

Have you got anything on tomorrow?

Have you got anything planned for tomorrow

How’s tomorrow looking?

I can’t predict what’ll happen.

I can’t wait until…

I’ll do it later.

I’ll do it right away.

I’ll do my best.

I’m (really / so) looking forward to..

I’m (really) dreading…

I’m counting the days till…

I’m saving up to…

I’m trying to put off… as long as I can

I’ve set my heart on…

In (just) a few minutes..

In (just) a moment / minute..

In the distant future, the sun will disappear.

In the near future…

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

Not long now.

One day, I’m going to have to…

Paul does a pretty good job of forecasting the weather.

Someday people will live on mars.

Sooner or later I’ll get round to…

Sooner or later.

The children are counting the days to Christmas.

The elections are just around the corner.

The first cuts in our budget are a sign of things to come.

This study foreshadows great changes in our system of education.

Time will tell.

Tina’s prediction proved true.

We’re planning to move in the near future.

What are you doing tomorrow?

What results do you anticipate?

What’s happening tomorrow?

What’s on the cards for tomorrow?

What’s your plan for tomorrow?

 

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How to describe a picture in English

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HOW TO DESCRIBE A PICTURE

At the top / At the bottom there is …

Behind / In front of … you can see …

Between … there is …

Both pictures depict ..

During the day, at night, in the evening, in the winter, after school …

From my point of view

He could be …ing

I (don’t) like the picture because …

I can see…

I don´t know the word for it, but…

I don´t know what it is called

I like / I don´t like the picture because….

I think (that)

In both pictures…

In my opinion,

In the foreground/background there is …

In the foreground/background you can see …

In the middle/centre there are …

It can/could/might be a scene of…

It dates from…

It is addressed to …. It aims at + BVing

It is obvious that the artist wants to criticise / express / show …

It makes me think of …

It might be a …

It might be a symbol of …

It represents

It seems as if …

It symbolises…

It was drawn / painted / taken / made by… (+ auteur)

It was published in 2014.

It was taken by/in …

It’s a black-and-white/coloured photo

It’s a kind / a sort of…

It’s an advertisement for…

It’s not very clear but, probably…

It’s used for…

It’s what you do when you…

Maybe / Perhaps…

Maybe it’s a…

On the left/right there are …

The atmosphere is relaxing/peaceful/depressing

The issue raised is …

The lady / The man seems to …

The photo was taken by…

The photo/picture shows a landscape

The picture is composed of two parts.

The problem illustrated here is …

The scene takes place in the street, at school….

There are two main characters

There is / there are…

This document is a painting, a map…

To conclude / as a conclusion….

What I mean…

What I´m trying to say…

 

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