Quotes with lovers

Quotes 41 till 60 of 65.

  • C. S. Lewis Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
    The Pilgrims Regress
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • J. G. Ballard Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
    Cocaine Nights (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.
    Cool Tombs (1918)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
    Works (1913)
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edith Hamilton There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Plato There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Dylan Thomas Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • James Baldwin True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brigitte Bardot We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • William Shakespeare We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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