Quotes about Lovers

“Scratch a lover, and find a foe.”

“Lovers should also have their days off.”

“No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers.”

“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”

“Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.”

“When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.”

“Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!”

“One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.”

“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”

“Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.”

“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”

“One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.”

“It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.”

“These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.”

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

“There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.”

“An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.”

“In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.”

“Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.”

“Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?”

“You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.”

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.”

“Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.”

“Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”

“I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.”

“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”

“There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.”

“A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.”