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• “I lost myself to him and laid my face upon my lover's breast And care and grief grew dim as in the morning's mist became the light There they dimmed amongst the lilies fair.”

  Loreena McKennitt (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals.”

  David Attenborough (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

  Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

  Robert Jordan (1948–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am a genre lover – everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie. . Sure, and that's the cool thing about DVD: you can pack stuff on the disc that would've been too much for the big screen because actually it would've only interested yourself and a bunch of fanboys, who wanna know everything.”

  Quentin Tarantino (born 1963) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: July 2003 Talking Fiction (Rolling Stone, 2003)

• “Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive”

  Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought, Combing with lifted arms her golden hair, Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night; And there was one who dreamed of a sudden death As she blew out her light.”

  Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.”

  Meher Baba (1894–1969) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Message dictated to Sanjeeva Reddy at Guruprasad (6 June 1960), as quoted in The God-Man : The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence and Spiritual Teaching (1964) by Charles Benjami…

• “To thy lover, O Lord, the railing of the world is wild honey and the pelting of stones by the mob is summer rain on the body. For is it not Thou that railest and peltest, and is it not Thou in the stones that strikest and hurtest me?”

  Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then he plucked at my robe of virtue, but I was ashamed and alarmed and prevented him. It was not till he wrested it from me by force that I saw how my soul had been hidden from me.”

  Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A few things for themselves, Florida, venereal soil, Disclose to the lover.”

  Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Donna, donna, dark, Stooping in indigo gown And cloudy constellations, Conceal yourself or disclose Fewest things to the lover — A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, A pungent bloom against your shade.”

  Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.”

  John Buchan (1875–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.”

  Clive Barker (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The times are tough now, just getting tougher. This old world is rough, it's just getting rougher. Cover me, come on baby, cover me. Well I'm looking for a lover who will come on in and cover me.”

  Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

  Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Billie Jean is not my lover, She's just a girl who claims that I am the one, But the kid is not my son.”

  Michael Jackson (1958–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is one of the deepest wounds that I have had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism, that such a man as Brandeis could be put on the Court.”

  William Howard Taft (1857–1930) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court By Jill Lepore January 22, 2024 Taft wrote this in 1916, expressing his opposition to Louis Brandeis being nominated to the Supreme Court.

• “The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh, And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, With breathless pause between, O who, with speech of war and woes, Would wish to break the soft repose Of such enchanting scene!”

  Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In truth, her ante-nuptial regard for Fitzpiers had been rather of the quality of awe towards a superior being than of tender solicitude for a lover.”

  Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “He had never before seen a woman’s lips and teeth which forced upon his mind with such persistent iteration the old Elizabethan simile of roses filled with snow. Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no—they were not perfect. And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

  Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.”

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Damn I wish I was your lover I'll rock you till the daylight comes Make sure you are smiling and warm.”

  Sophie B. Hawkins (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Perish the lover, whose imperfect flame Forgets one feature of the nymph he lov'd.”

  William Shenstone (1714–1763) said by 1763 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who are you?" I asked the phantom, "I am rest from Hate and Pride. "I am friend to king and beggar, "I am Alpha and Omega, "I was councilor to Hagar "But men call me suicide." I was weary of tide breasting, Weary of the world's behesting, And I lusted for the resting As a lover for his bride.”

  Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Choice of subject, like choice of lover, is an intimate decision.”

  Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”

  Stendhal (1783–1842) said by 1842 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Put down your hollow tips, And kiss your lover's lips, And know that fate is what we make of it.”

  Brandon Boyd (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Why don't I watch the ocean? My lover's gone. No earthly ships will ever bring him home again bring him home again...”

  Dido (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.”

  Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You're a wonderful lover.”

  Dylan Moran (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.”

  Langston Hughes (1901–1967) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 1-4), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)

• “And next day she met her lover, and again Sofya Lvovna drove about the town alone in a hired sledge thinking about her aunt.”

  Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

  Aphra Behn (1640–1689) said by 1689 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).

• “Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?”

  Robert Graves (1895–1985) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Symptoms of Love" from More Poems (1961)

• “Better late than not at all,” came a voice from the ranked multitude. “Better a tardy lover than a lonely bed.”

  Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The company of women made of him a lover of women and, to a certain extent, a womanizer.”

  J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I sometimes think a mighty lover Takes every burning kiss we give: His lights are those which round us hover: For him alone our lives we live.”

  George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nay, let this earth, your portion, likewise cover All the old anger, setting us apart: Always, in all, in truth was I your lover; Always, I held your heart.”

  George William Russell (1867–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The actors are, it seems, the usual three: Husband and wife and lover.”

  George Meredith (1828–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over, Sleeping at last, the struggle and horror past, Cold and white, out of sight of friend and of lover, Sleeping at last.”

  Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) first seen 1893 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sleeping at Last, st. 1 (1893) .

• “I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred — that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.”

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A woman never thoroughly cares for her lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she begins to smile upon you.”

  Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song — This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.”

  Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Prayer," translated by Judith Hemschemeyer in Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1989)

• “And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover. Oh there were others who would treat you cruel, But oh Jeannie, I will always be your fool.”

  Elton John (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother.”

  Zadie Smith (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I salute you, Freja, as your lover for ever. Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!”

  William Joyce (1906–1946) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Last letter to his wife Margaret before he was hanged (3 January 1946), as cite in Francis Selwyn, Hitler's Englishman op cit, p. 211

• “What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.”

  Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Biographia Literaria, introduction (1906).

• “Jack: I once had a candidate who was deeply concerned about the moral issues raised by myxomatosis. 'Look mate,' I said, 'Rabbits, as far as I'm aware, haven't yet had the vote.' Mind you, I'm an animal lover, too, you know. I've always advocated that the party that introduced family allowances for dogs would sweep the country. And it'll come, it'll come.”

  Dennis Potter (1935–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. (p402)”

  Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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