Lovers Quotes - Page 35

• Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Girl, Passion, Heart

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256

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• His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?

  Jonathan Maberry

  Pain, Gentleman, Monsters

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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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• Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Secret, Remains

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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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• Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

  Sally Field

  Heart, Broken, Support

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• It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Latin, Wings, Roles

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• Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Blessed, Animal

  "The Endangered Species Act: Preserving Wildlife, Wonder and Our Natural Heritage for 40 Years" by Jamie Rappaport Clark, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Laughter, Hands, Sensual

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• I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.

  Ava DuVernay

  Jobs, Thinking, Film

  "Filmmaker Ava DuVernay". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 9, 2012.

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• He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.

  Lucas Malet

  Sea, Pyramids, Numbers

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• Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.

  Rumi

  Beloved

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• It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The true lover of his country is ready to communicate his fears, and to sound the alarm, whenever he perceives the approach of mischief. But he sounds no alarm, when there is no enemy; he never terrifies his countrymen till he is terrified himself. The patriotism, therefore, may be justly doubted of him, who professes to be disturbed by incredibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Distance, Jealous

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.135

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• The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

  Emma Goldman

  Integrity, Lying, Believe

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace.

  Elizabeth I

  Peace, Years, Names

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• Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

  Rumi

  Faith, Kings, Lovely

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

  Gloria Stuart

  Rain, Struggle, Alaska

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• On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

  Pierre Salinger

  Alaska, President, Obvious

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• I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Attitude, Alaska, Looks

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• Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.

  Richard Widmark

  Education, Good Friend, Alaska

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• The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

  John Philip Sousa

  Alaska, Average, Prevailing

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• I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

  Will Estes

  Dog, Animal, Alaska

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• I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

  Walter Martin

  Alaska, People

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• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Ego

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• The idea that men are from Mars and women are from Venus is a bunch of bullshit. Treat her like you would a friend, and you'll wind up with a lover.

  Bill Maher

  Men, Wind, Ideas

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