Vātsyāyana: Quotes about love

Vātsyāyana is Indian logician. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Vātsyāyana: 54 quotes9 likes

“Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.”

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 69

“Anything may take place at any time, for love does not care for time or order.”

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 39

“When a woman reproaches a man, but at the same time acts affectionately towards him, she should be made love to in every way. A woman, who meets a man in lonely places, and puts up with the touch of his foot, but pretends, on account of indecision of her mind, not to be aware of it, should be conquered by patience and by continued efforts.”

Vātsyāyana book Kama Sutra

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 96

“In short, nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails, and biting.”

Vātsyāyana book Kama Sutra

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 45

“Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.”

Vātsyāyana book Kama Sutra

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 118

“The whole subject of embracing is of such a nature that men who ask questions about it, or who hear about it, or who talk about it, acquire thereby a desire for enjoyment. Even those embraces that are not mentioned in the Kama Shastra should be practised at the time of sexual enjoyment, if they are in any way conducive to the increase of love or passion. The rules of the Shastra apply so long as the passion of man is middling, but when the wheel of love is once set in motion, there is then no Shastra and no order.”

Vātsyāyana

Source: Kama Sutra , translated by Richard Francis Burton Chapter 2. Of the Embrace https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra/Part_II/Chapter_2, Wikisource

“…variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.”

Vātsyāyana book Kama Sutra

Source: Kama Sutra, p. 45

“Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of [[citizens.”

Vātsyāyana

Source: "The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanskrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks", p. 18