Lovers Quotes - Page 18

• And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

  Don McLean

  Beautiful, Suicidal, Night

  Song: Vincent

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• Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

  Dinah Shore

  Husband, Golf, Tennis

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• There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Two

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

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• Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Song, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Witty, Money

  Henry Fielding (2007). “Henry Fielding - Plays, Volume II, 1731 - 1734”, p.523, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

  Henry Fielding

  Funny, Money, Years

  Henry Fielding (1803). “The miser: a comedy”, p.64

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• It was a lover and his lass,
  With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
  That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
  In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
  When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
  Sweet lovers love the spring.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Spring, Bird

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. [18]

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• The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Sight

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.124

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• Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic Romeo And Juliet, Rite

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The life and beauties of Shakespeare: comprising careful selections from each play, with a general index, digesting them under proper heads”, p.294

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• In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Midnight, Youth

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [26]

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• Lovers ever run before the clock

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Clock

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Full and Comprehensive Life of the Poet, a History of the Stage, an Introd. to Each Play, Copious Glossarial and Other Notes and References ...”, p.173

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• Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Together, Endure

  Walter Lippmann (1929). “A Preface To Morals”

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• Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.

  Jacques Leclercq

  Love You, Love Is, Intimacy

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• There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Love Is, Ideas

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• The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Love You, Love Is, Romantic Love

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• All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Perfection, Able

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.587

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• Yet, O thou beautiful rose!
  Queen rose so fair and sweet.
  What were lover or crown to thee,
  without the clay at thy feet?

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Beautiful, Sweet, Queens

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• It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

  Adolphus Busch

  Beer, Winning, People

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• It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

  Dinah Shore

  Sports, Golf, Guy

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• The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

  Albert Einstein

  Emotional, Achievement, Feelings

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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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