Top 88 Quotes About Good Lovers
#1. I liked the way he handled himself in the kitchen. I like men who cook. Men who cook are generally good lovers.
Janice Dickinson
#2. Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?"
"Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women.
Carolyn Brown
#4. Good lovers are not good fuckers; because they cannot bear hurting their beloved.
M.F. Moonzajer
#5. If you promise to love, trust, respect, support and stand by someone no matter what, do not just speak those words when times are good. Live those words when challenges arise. The stronger the love and commitment, the more unbreakable the bond. United hearts will never be easily divided.
Carlos Wallace
#6. 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
#7. Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.
Susan Cheever
#8. It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight.
Crystal Woods
#9. For what it's worth" - he rose from his seat, moved around the table and bent over her, whispering in her ear as he pressed a kiss to her cheek - "I like you better in a pair of worn jeans, and I think you deserve someone who appreciates what he's got. Not someone out to have a good time.
J.M. Stewart
#11. Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
Dan Stevens
#12. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birthday.
Haruki Murakami
#14. I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.
Drew Carey
#15. Mark ran his fingers over the bindings and
whispered words, written long ago, words that
wriggled through the aged leather, trembled
beneath his touch. What lives and loves,
hopes and dreams, deaths and despair
these volumes held.
Ellen Read
#16. Even masochists need lovers," I told him, my tone gentle. "What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someoene.
R.K. Lilley
#17. Maybe that's how it starts. You stumble upon something that helps you cope, fills a void. Makes you feel something different than what you currently feel. You know in the long run it probably won't be good for you, but you do it anyway. Tell yourself you can handle it.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#18. She has had a couple of lovers before, but honest to God, no one has ever felt as good, as perfect a fit, as him.
Sarah Rayner
#20. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.
Ayn Rand
#21. Best (male-female) friends hardly differ from lovers, but not too many lovers are best friends.
It's just ironical that you are in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone who is not good enough to be your best friend.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#22. Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.
Vivien Alcock
#23. The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it
as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back
Lauren Barnholdt
#24. The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.
Eve Ensler
#25. You're either selfish, or you're a servant ... but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant? ... A good marriage is a servant and a servant.
Mark Driscoll
#26. Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe
#27. At times all you need is a bottle of fine old wine, a mellifluous piece of music playing in the background and a good book to spend the entire night in a magical bliss!
Avijeet Das
#28. I think what makes life matter,what makes it good,is knowing that someday we'll die. Maybe death is God's joke on us but I think it is also his gift.We have our allotted time and the is's over.It's up to us to make in meaningful and special.
Philip Carter
#30. It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean
Dawn Downey
#31. Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.
Miranda Liasson
#32. Good gods, female," Addolgar muttered. "What did you do with yourself before I came into your life?"
"I lived quietly alone in my cave," she snapped back. "And I was quite happy there, too.
G.A. Aiken
#33. A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You've got nothing,
I've got nothing,
And it's not a good thing.
Arzum Uzun
#34. Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.
John Mayer
#35. There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
William Sloane Coffin
#36. To have you in my life is wondrous
Yet all good things, allegedly, come to an end,
Piffle, says I, for you, undoubtedly,
Will forever be my lover and best friend.
John Walter Bratton
#37. He isn't the best, neither am I. But we are the best version of ourselves with each other. And that's pretty close to Perfection.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#38. Sweetheart, I'll be a Marine 'til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fifty or sixty years from now.
Dee Tenorio
#39. It meant good-bye to London and to Churchill, whose company Harriman thoroughly enjoyed, and to Pamela, whose bed he enjoyed (the lovers' hiatus lasted almost three decades, until 1971, when Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward became the third Mrs. Harriman).
William Manchester
#41. Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.
Abraham Lincoln
#42. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
M.F.K. Fisher
#43. When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#45. Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers.
James Guida
#46. A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.
Sei Shonagon
#47. Good girls should be dreaming of angels or lovers.
Paulo Coelho
#48. It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever
Rosamunde Pilcher
#49. Lovers beware and take good head to whom
You give your love, for whom you suffer pain.
I tell you there are few enough among them
To be trusted to give true love back again
Robert Henryson
#50. It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book ... from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#51. Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.
Michael Greger
#52. They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
And Maia said, 'Good.
Eva Ibbotson
#53. In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.
Jackson Radcliffe
#54. Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.
Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long.
Sasha Alsberg
#55. I maybe such a pain in the ass,
But in a good way.
I give you pleasure at the same time!
Arzum Uzun
#56. We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good
at fractions.'
Rodney Dangerfield
#58. Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking
God warn us!
matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
William Shakespeare
#59. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also - I must put it crudely - good people; controlled, loyal, fair-minded, mutually adaptable people.
C.S. Lewis
#60. She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting.
Jane Austen
#61. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#62. Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
Eric Clapton
#63. Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard."
"LIVER. Good one."
"Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?"
"Life Invasion. Like it."
"Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport."
"Doesn't that spell OLIVER?
Shannon Hale
#65. Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.
Gord Sellar
#66. Every lover is a storm chaser.
Every good heart has lost its roof.
Andrea Gibson
#67. It's morning when I go to sleep
In the distant dawn a church bell rings
Another day is coming on
A baby's born, an old man dies
Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye
I leave my soul and just move on
And wish that I was there to sing this song
Jon Bon Jovi
#68. If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come - sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected - and it balances.
Amanda Palmer
#69. The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter
Forrest Griffin
#70. And still, even when he'd told her how he felt about her, and that he wanted their fake relationship to be real, she'd held herself back out of fear that their friends-to-lovers story was too good to be anything but fiction.
Bella Andre
#71. Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.
Santa Montefiore
#72. We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. Take a table and I'll join you in a second.'
When he walked away I did something I couldn't be scolded for doing.
I checked out his ass in his jeans and ... that looked good.
Stephanie Witter
#74. I became a diligent condom carrier and when most subsequent lovers had the good fortune to lie under my grunting, sweaty mass, they were always the grimacing recipient of an eager and rubber-sheathed penis boner.
Rob Delaney
#75. A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
Nicholaa Spencer
#76. At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. She would read a book hundreds of times, carrying it with her until the pages were torn and the covers were falling off, then she'd paste the covers to the ceiling where she could stare at them, like remembering a good dream.
Sarah Addison Allen
#78. Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.
John Edgar Wideman
#79. Religion is a good time pass, better than philosophy, and a million times better than love; love is a wastage of an era.
Aporva Kala
#80. It took a long time, but my heart now feels full when I think of him. When you fall in love again - which I have - it's funny the other things that come back in with that open-ness. You have this ghost chorus of the lovers who came before, but they're benign now, they're good spirits.
Emma Forrest
#81. Then between Sixth Street and Seventh Street, my mood was vastly improved when I passed a good-looking dog, a dark brown Lab. We locked eyes for a moment - two lovers from a former life reunited - and I felt quite happy.
Jonathan Ames
#82. You know," Kavita begins, "I think I can pick out my own furniture. I am an artist after all. I do have some taste."
"No you don't." Nick plainly states. "No man has taste. Besides, I didn't pick it out, she did. Wives are good for things like that.
Carroll Bryant
#83. I don't care about wearing branded clothes or flaunting brands. But I do care about the books that I read and the music that I listen to.
Avijeet Das
#84. During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.
Ernst Gombrich
#85. I had never had a big opinion for myself. I had always thought I'd be a fuck up, that I'd be disappointed like always by life and people. But at this very moment, I knew it. I wasn't a good man, not well-adjusted. - Nolan
Stephanie Witter
#86. In any case, I had been one of them. If her lovers were horrifying, I too had been of their order. That had to be admitted. 'It is no good pontificating,' Mr Deacon used to say, 'about other people's sexual tastes.
Anthony Powell
#87. Even mosochists need lovers. What would a girl like me do without someone like you? Perhaps everyone is good for someone.
R.K. Lilley
#88. He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? To
Plato
