Lovers famous quotes
07-17-2025
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You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
-- A. E. Housman -
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
-- A. E. Housman -
Trust me--with women worth the being won, The softest lover ever best succeeds.
-- Aaron Hill -
Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?
-- Abraham Cowley -
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
-- Adyashanti -
You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
-- Alan Cohen -
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
-- Albert Camus -
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
-- Albert Camus -
For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends
-- Alexander Pope -
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.
-- Alice Cooper -
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.
-- Amy Davis -
A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.
-- Ana Castillo -
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.
-- André Aciman -
We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
-- Andrea Gibson -
Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I find running life quite hard and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.
-- Anna Chancellor -
I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.
-- Anna Faris -
They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.
-- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -
.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
-- Anne Fortier -
Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.
-- Anthony Ryan -
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
-- Aristotle -
Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers ...
-- Arlene Francis -
And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend!
-- Arthur Symons -
You should always judge a book by its lovers.
-- Ashok K. Banker -
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
-- Ava DuVernay -
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
-- Axl Rose -
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
-- Babette Deutsch -
I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
-- Barnabas -
See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.
-- Benjamin Stillingfleet -
Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -
Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
-- Bhagat Singh -
I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
-- Billy Joel -
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
-- Bob Herbert -
I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.
-- Bobby Darin -
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.
-- Boz Scaggs -
I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.
-- Brandon Bays -
Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
-- Brigitte Boisselier -
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
-- Byron Katie -
I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common
-- Callimachus -
I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.
-- Candy Darling -
Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
-- Carl Sandburg -
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
-- Cate Tiernan -
More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity:
-- Catharine Arnold -
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
-- Catullus -
We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
-- Cesar Romero -
You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
-- Charlaine Harris -
An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
The woman who takes a woman lover lives dangerously in patriarchy.
-- Cheryl Clarke -
I'll be true, I'll be useful...I'll be cavalier...I'll be yours my dear.and I'll belong to you...if you'll just let me through.this is easy as lovers go,so don't complicate it by hesitating.and this is wonderful as loving goes,this is tailor-made, whats the sense in waiting?
-- Chris Carrabba -
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
-- Chris Cleave -
This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover.
-- Christina Rossetti -
I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.
-- Christine Schutt -
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
-- Christopher Golden -
Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself.
-- Clara -
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.
-- Clive Barker -
I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.
-- Concha Buika -
He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.
-- Countee Cullen -
What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
-- Coventry Patmore -
I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.
-- David Gilmour -
But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.
-- David James Duncan -
There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
-- David Levithan -
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.
-- David Sedaris -
My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.
-- DeVon Franklin -
No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence.
-- Dietrich von Hildebrand -
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik -
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
-- Don McLean -
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
-- Eberhard Weber -
O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
-- Edward Frenkel -
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
-- Edwin Arnold -
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you livein our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.
-- Elisabeth Eaves -
Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell -
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
-- Enid Bagnold
