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• “..human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.”

  Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Quote of Jawlensky from a letter to his brother Dimitri, circa 1917/18; as cited in Clemens Weiler, op. cit., 1971, p. 12

• “She had a need to feel the thunder, To chase the lightning from the sky, To watch a storm with all its wonder Written in her lover's eyes. She had to ride the heat of passion Like a comet burning bright, Rushing headlong in the wind Now where only dreams have been, Burning both ends of the night.”

  Garth Brooks (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.”

  Susie Bright (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Is this the type of friend or lover I want to have? I ask myself every time I meet someone new. Charming but shallow; good-hearted but a bit conventional; too handsome for his own good; fascinating but probably unreliable; and so forth. I guess I've had my share of unreliable. More than my share? How many would constitute more than my share?”

  Susanna Kaysen (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She had fallen asleep with her head on her lover's knees. He looked at her and smiled. An expression of pity and benevolence flitted across his face. His hands stretched out part way toward the sleeping woman with the gentleness of strength. I saw the glorious pride of condescension and charity in this man whom a woman prostrate before him deified.”

  Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'd imagine Janowicz is a fine lover - a big, bear of a man but with the hands of a miniature portrait painter.”

  Ben Dirs wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Life is my lover.”

  Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.”

  Samuel Richardson (1687–1761) said by 1761 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments”

  Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.”

  Helen Rowland (1876–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Women are very sweet and nice, but you always have to be rather careful that they do not run off with your husband or your best lover. They are rather inclined to do that. Don't you see, you have got to be careful of women. The men do not make trouble, at least not with me.”

  Barbara Cartland (1901–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O! for some honest lover's ghost, Some kind unbodied post Sent from the shades below! I strangely long to know, Whether the nobler chaplets wear, Those that their mistress' scorn did bear, Or those that were us'd kindly.”

  John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(Sylvia at typewriter) A lady never offers a new lover a complimentary tooth brush, razor and sewing kit the next morning.”

  Nicole Hollander (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “From the winter's gray despair, From the summer’s golden languor, Death, the lover of Life, Frees us for ever.”

  William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly critical, Buffoon and poet, lover and sensualist: A deal of Ariel, just a streak of Puck, Much Antony, of Hamlet most of all, And something of the Shorter-Catechist.”

  William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “O harp and altar, of the fury fused, (How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!) Terrific threshold of the prophet’s pledge, Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,”

  Hart Crane (1899–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”

  Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.”

  Elizabeth Gould Davis (1910–1974) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age, Putnam (1971).

• “O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.”

  Manmohan Acharya (1967–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We have dealt with all these idealists in the past, I’m sure we’ll find a way to deal with them today... Rid our world of all these fanatics one by one, won’t let not prophet lover ruin my fun. We’ll string ‘em up and shoot ‘em down.”

  Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “She walked down the aisle with all eyes on her and she glowed Someone chose her above all other women they had known I can only wonder what it must be like to be so perfect in a lover's eyes, the only one they see Well, it’s never been me, the chosen one It’s never been me If ever I see a chosen one I feel ugly”

  Happy Rhodes (born 1965) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Chosen One" - Live performance at The Tin Angel, Philadelphia PA (29 January 2005)

• “No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.”

  Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1870–1937) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899) p. 3.

• “Curse on the man who business first designed, And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!”

  John Oldham (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The complete man, then, is the “lover” added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.”

  Richard Weaver (1910–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The eloquent Lysias, posing as a non-lover, had concealed designs upon Phaedrus, so that his fine speech was really a sheep’s clothing. Socrates discerned in him a “peculiar craftiness.” One must suspect the same today of many who ask us to place our faith in the neutrality of their discourse.”

  Richard Weaver (1910–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Artist, philosopher, lover, mystic—these words name levels of consciousness which are accessible to all of us. It is not a question of training, education, or degree of sophistication. It is rather a question of openness, of courage and endeavour, of willingness to dwell elsewhere than in the midst of demeaning preoccupations with material fortune, status, and power.”

  R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.”

  Violet Trefusis (1894–1972) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Author: Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, published in (1990), pg.27, Last words of letter March 1919

• “There is no born lover, there is no born Don Juan, for we are all lovers.”

  Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I am a great lover of morality, public and private, but the intercourse of nations cannot be strictly regulated by that rule.”

  Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764–1845) first seen 1824 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Princess Lieven (18 August 1828), reprinted in Guy Le Strange (ed.), Correspondence of Princess Lieven and Earl Grey. Volume I: 1824 to 1830 (1890), p. 130

• “The quality of poetry is not strained. It has not to abide our repeated questions. It tests and is not tested. Every true lover of poetry knows that when he cites great lines it is not the poetry but the hearer that is to be judged.”

  Alice Meynell (1847–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “No riches from his scanty store My lover could impart He gave a boon I valued more— He gave me all his heart !”

  Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827) first seen 1786 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: from 'A Song', Poems 1786, kindle ebook ASIN B00849523Q

• “The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”

  Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Have you ever fed a lover With just your hands? Close your eyes and trust it, just trust it. Have you ever thrown A fist full of glitter in the air? Have you ever looked fear in the face, And said I just don't care?”

  Pink (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The man who comes home exhausted because he has been taught to believe without question that his male identity is based on nine-to-five loyalty and the giving of his best energies to the corporation has made a decision about his sexuality. He sacrifices his corpus to the corporation. His chosen method of expending energy and structuring time disallows afternoon dalliance with his wife or lover.”

  Sam Keen (1931–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[T]he most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.”

  Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “And it has to be non-academic. It is easy to be with your kids and say let's do homework together. But we try to do things, beyond doing lunches and dinners. I learnt that from my father. He was a big nature lover and during our school days, we went to different places every Sunday -- we walked through the forest or had a bath in streams.”

  Mukesh Ambani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Fierce boils in every vein Indignant shame and passion blind, The tempest of the lover's mind, The soldier's high disdain.”

  John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My lover's gone off to some foreign country, sopping wet at our doorway I watch the clouds rupture. Mira says, nothing can harm him. This passion has yet to be slaked.”

  Meera Bai (1498–1552) said by 1552 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There comes a point for a nut-lover, Quintus thought, where funeral food is worth taking a risk, even when you are dining with a megalomaniac who wants to kill you.”

  Lindsey Davis (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We will study first the historical Christ; secondly, the mythic Christ; thirdly, the mystic Christ. And we shall find that elements drawn from all these make up the Jesus Christ of the Churches. They all enter into the composition of the grandiose and pathetic Figure which dominates the thoughts and the emotions of Christendom, the Man of Sorrows, the Saviour, the Lover and Lord of Men. P. 127”

  Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife; Without you I'd have had a lonely life. You cheated lots of times but then, I forgave you in the end Though your lover was my friend.Adieu, Francoise, it's hard to die When all the birds are singing in the sky. Now that spring is in the air With your lovers ev'rywhere, Just be careful; I'll be there.”

  Jacques Brel (1929–1978) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Seasons in the Sun" (1961), as translated by Rod McKuen from Brel's song "Le Moribond" · McKuen performance · Beach Boys performance

  Also quoted by: Rod McKuen

• “People always assume if you're vegetarian you can just live on cheese and meanwhile cheese is awful for your body even if tastes so good. I'm a massive animal lover too. Being vegan has been so good for me. I've never felt better.”

  Kate Mara (born 1983) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: House of Cards' Kate Mara: 'It is complicated being compared to my sister Rooney'". Interview for The Independent. April 25, 2014.

• “I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.”

  Hans Haacke (born 1936) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Hans Haacke in: Roberta Smith "A Giant artistic Gibe at Jesse Helms," in New York Times, April 20, 1990; Republished in: The New York Times Guide to the Arts of the 20th Century: 1900-1929, (2002) p. 2929

• “What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!”

  Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: (tr. Anon., 1875); quoted with a slight change in Love: A Book of Quotations (2012) p. 71

• “Lover waiting in my bed”

  Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) said by 1706 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I often see my lost lover in dreams.”

  Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) said by 1706 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My lover and I, we meet in complete”

  Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) said by 1706 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If the GOP’s “big tent” is destined to collapse, there’s no one better to be standing under it than Kemp. If the party does not collapse-and it elites continue to ignore the views of its grass roots-it will be too left-wing for any true freedom lover to support.”

  Jeffrey Tucker (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.”

  Norman Spinrad (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Who a Lover can deceive?”

  John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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