Lovers quotes
Baldwin James 1924-1987
Another Country
The face of a lover is unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Byron Lord 1788-1824
Don Juan
In her first passion woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love.
Catullus c.84-c.54 BC
Carmina
But what a woman says to her lusting lover it is best to write in wind and swift-flowing water.
Connolly Cyril 1903-1974
The Unquiet Grave
There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
Essays
All mankind love a lover.
Gibbon Edward 1737-1794
Memoirs of My Life
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.
Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911
Patience
While this magnetic,
Peripatetic
Lover, he lived to learn,
By no endeavour
Can magnet ever
Attract a Silver Churn!
Goethe Johann von 1749-1832
So,lively brisk old fellow,don't let age get you down.White hairs or not,you can still be a lover.
Hardy Thomas 1840-1928
The Hand of Ethelberta
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Jonson Ben c.1573-1637
‘A Celebration of Charis'
And it is not always face,
Clothes, or fortune gives the grace,
Or the feature, or the youth;
But the language, and the truth,
With the ardour and the passion,
Gives the lover weight and fashion.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injured lover's hell.
Parker Dorothy 1893-1967
‘Ballade of a Great Weariness'
Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Rowland Helen 1875-1950
A Guide to Men
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Richard III
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determinèd to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Southey Robert 1774-1843
The Doctor
Your true lover of literature is never fastidious.
Thurber James 1894-1961
I am not a dog-lover. To me, a dog-lover is a dog who is in love with another dog.
Trollope Anthony 1815-1882
The Small House at Allington
I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Walsh William 1663-1708
‘The Despairing Lover'
A lover forsaken
A new love may get,
But a neck when once broken
Can never be set.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
„The Hill"
And when we die
All's over that is ours; and life burns on
Through other lovers, other lips.
Cervantes Miguel de 1547-1616
Don Quixote
Let them eat the lie and swallow it with their bread. Whether the two were lovers or no, they'll have accounted to God for it by now. I have my own fish to fry.
Chagall Marc 1889-1985
All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.
Cummings E.E. 1894-1962
unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home
... lovers alone wear sunlight.
Flecker James Elroy 1884-1915
The Golden Journey to Samarkand
When the great markets by the sea shut fast
All that calm Sunday that goes on and on:
When even lovers find their peace at last,
And earth is but a star, that once had shone.
Lewis Alun 1915-1944
Goodbye
So we must say Goodbye, my darling,
And go, as lovers go, for ever;
Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels
And make an end of lying down together.
Plato 429-347 BC
There are three classes of men - lovers of
wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.
Sedley Sir Charles c.1639-1701
‚Song'
She deceiving,
I believing;
What need lovers wish for more?
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Romeo and Juliet
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
‚The Lady of Shalott'
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
‚I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady of Shalott.
Thomas Dylan 1914-1953
‚And death shall have no dominion'
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
