Lovers Quotes - Page 36

• Every lover is a soldier.

  Ovid

  Alaska, Soldier

  Ovid (1997). “Ovid's Metamorphoses”, p.280, University of Oklahoma Press

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• A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

  Stendhal

  Character, Pride, Sacrifice

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

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• The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Ambition, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.311

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• Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

  Jonathan Swift

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.899, Delphi Classics

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• A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Strong, Men, Air

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• There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Men, Stupidity, World

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• It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Making Love, Soldier

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• I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

  Jacklyn Zeman

  Passion, Nurse, Dancing

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• Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

  Natalie Portman

  Gay, United States, Benefits

  "Scarlett Johansson And Natalie Portman On Monogamy And The Elections". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Women, I learned, adapted.
  At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive...that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it.

  Alice Steinbach

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

  Rumi

  Moon, Needs, Patient

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• Venus, thy eternal sway
  All the race of men obey.
  Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis.
  He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

  Euripides

  Life, Men, Race

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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

  Maurice Blanchot

  People, Proud, Painting

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• We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

  Thucydides

  Beautiful, Loss, Simple

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• You simply pour, it will come. And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about - because a lover knows that to love is to be happy. If it comes, good; then the happiness is multiplied. But even if it never comes back, in the very act of loving you become so happy, so ecstatic, who bothers whether it comes or not? Love has its own intrinsic happiness. It happens when you love. There is no need to wait for the result. Just start loving. By and by you will see much more love is coming back to you. One loves and comes to know what love is only by loving.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Waiting, Loving You

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• Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Interesting, World

  "7 things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger want new graduates to know" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. June 15, 2016.

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• Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

  Leston Havens

  Space, Courses, Havens

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• There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and another between friends. The love that is real is the love that lies at the heart of all relationships. That is the love of God and it doesn't change with form or circumstance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, God, Mother

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• Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

  Albert Camus

  Honesty, Integrity, Mistress

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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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• There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Love Is, Soul

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• The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sweet, Humility, Past

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.92, Penguin

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• 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.

  William Wycherley

  Book, Insomnia, Mistress

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Men, Trying

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• The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, People, Different

  Theodor Reik (2017). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.100, Routledge

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