Love is blind
Definition
A statement making the claim that people in love tend to idealize their lovers and overlook their faults. See also: DDW.QUOTES:
(1) William Shakespeare: ' Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.'
(2) Zouzou (Josephine Baker) in ZouZou (1934): ' All lovers are handsome.'
(3) Lucy Hill (Diana Lynn) in The Major and the Minor (1942): ' Love is a very astigmatic condition.'
(3) Merlin (Nicol Williamson) in Excalibur (1981): ' You're not listening. Your heart is not. Love is deaf as well as blind.'
(4) Divorce lawyer Gavin D'Amato (Danny DeVito) in War of the Roses (1989): ' If love is blind, marriage is like having a stroke.'
(5) Robert Reisner. Graffiti. Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing : ' Love is blind with sex in mind, but don't be resigned, it always takes two of a kind.'
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