Top 100 Sayings About A Lover
#1. I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.
John Boyne
#2. I worship pianos like they are prize diamonds, and I never willfully do damage to them. But I grew up playing guitars, and you treat a guitar like a best friend or a little brother or a lover you have a tempestuous relationship with.
Jamie Cullum
#3. In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Michael Ondaatje
#4. Well, the cigar I smoke takes two hours."
"When a man loves a woman....O to have such a lover..."
"I gave up a $100,000 lifestyle to take this position!
John Neumann
#5. Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first luxury, proved a source of entertainment so fertile and delightful that it left her nothing to wish.
Fanny Burney
#6. As an actor you're only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don't like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money ... an actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You'll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.
Shahrukh Khan
#7. A lover of Jesus and of the truth can lift himself above himself in spirit.
Thomas A Kempis
#8. What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
Coventry Patmore
#9. I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.
Jason Mraz
#10. You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#11. I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
Billy Joel
#12. Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched ...
Janet Fitch
#13. I'll take him to the hospital " Bernardo said "but what do we put on the paperwork "
"Tell them it was a lover's quarrel " Olaf said.
"Over my dead body " I said.
"Eventually " he said.
"Don't be a sick fuck Olaf " I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#14. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
George Sand
#15. 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
#16. Mischievous smile. I remember reading about Calvin Klein's daughter. Every time she pulled down a lover's pants, she was confronted by her father's name on the band of his underwear. A total sex killer.
David Cronenberg
#17. Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.
Frida Kahlo
#18. So she learned at the age of almost twenty-six how to kiss a lover. Such kisses involved tongues, lips, taste, feel, and soft, needy noises that had her pressing up into his body and wanting to consume him with her hands and her mouth.
Grace Burrowes
#19. Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover's embrace.
Alan Kinross
#20. Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
Helen Fisher
#22. I learned long ago that you don't get in the middle of a lover's spat. Nothing EVER goes as planned - People fall in love with the wrong person, someone ends up with a donkey head and then its a whole big mess. - Puck
Julie Kagawa
#23. It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!
Paulo Coelho
#24. This isn't going to be a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. Luc's a lover. He's going to take it nice and slow. Make me ache for it.
Leah Marie Brown
#25. Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity.
George MacDonald
#26. She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman.
Toni Morrison
#27. I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
Whitney Houston
#28. Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked
Leonor Fini
#29. Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing
Walt Whitman
#30. But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
Andre Benjamin
#31. A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.
Leonor Fini
#32. On the trees were no longer only leaves but brown fruits, on the bushes no longer blossoms but clusters of red berries. And the wind had a rough manliness in its voice - the tone not of a lover but of a husband.
Matthew Pearl
#33. Do not lie to a lover. But on the other hand, do not always tell him the whole truth.
Afric McGlinchey
#34. The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
Pope John Paul II
#35. A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#37. stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its return.
Warsan Shire
#38. The Angels are not articulate about many things, but they bring a lover's inspiration to the subject of bikes.
Hunter S. Thompson
#39. No, I was not going to work. I was an artist, a lover, a lover of women, of the oppressed and downtrodden, a warrior really. I should have been somewhere leading an armed revolution in the name of love and no, I was not going to work.
Michelle Tea
#40. Love is a leap of faith. There are no guarantees. Whether it's a lover or a child or a dog, you love because you have no choice. So figure out what you want,
Wendy Tyson
#41. Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
Salvador Dali
#42. A lover's a liar,
To himself he lies,
The truthful are loveless,
Like oysters their eyes!
Kurt Vonnegut
#43. The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.
Robin Hobb
#44. If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
Sebastian Faulks
#45. Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
Arthur Desmond
#46. Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.
Rumi
#48. One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women.
Dylan Thomas
#49. And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
Virginia Woolf
#50. We went to places where we felt - like all lovers - that we were the first.
We discovered the body of a lover has secrets that never end.
We discovered that at times the same secrets reveal different truths.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#51. Then we shan't regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies ...
Plato
#52. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
Wylie Dufresne
#53. It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.
D.S. Mixell
#54. A lover becomes a light when he or she enlightens world of someone.
Debasish Mridha
#55. One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.
John Updike
#56. You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.
John Carpenter
#57. Who shall give a lover any law?' Love is a greater law, by my troth, than any law written by mortal man.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#59. Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
Brian Cox
#60. Dane touched my chin and lifted my face upward, and kissed me gently. Only then did I understand that Dane had always been a friend I had slept with, and how entirely different that was from having a lover who could be a friend.
Lisa Kleypas
#61. How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means?
Lena Dunham
#62. A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
#63. God put thorns around the
Love's door to stop anyone
who's not a Lover from entering.
Rumi
#65. 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
#66. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a lover not a fighter.
Amanda Hocking
#68. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Marty McConnell
#71. Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure ...
Neil Gaiman
#72. Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#74. When we enjoy an intimate connection with a lover, we form invisible cord connections between our chakras into their chakras.
Catherine Carrigan
#75. I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
Jennifer Lopez
#77. I am still a lover of paper books. One of my first jobs was in a bookstore, and I still like to be able to write in a margin and feel the paper. Once inside of a digital device, I end up losing things.
Sophia Amoruso
#78. These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
Andrei Codrescu
#79. You fight to defend a lover, not to win one. If you do, it isn't love.
Jerry Springer
#80. The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#81. But never try to answer for what is between a husband and his wife, or a lover and his mistress. There is always one little corner which remains hidden from all the world, and is known only to the two of them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#82. Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
Maurice Sendak
#84. There's green eyes in my eyes
And a lover on my mind
And I sing from the piano
Tear my yellow dress and
Cry and cry and cry
Over the love of you
Florence Welch
#85. I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.
Laurie R. King
#86. I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.
Byron Katie
#87. At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.
Willis Regier
#88. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity.
Ted Chiang
#89. How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?
Girdhar Joshi
#92. There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
Graham Greene
#93. Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.
Thomas Hardy
#94. He who is not always ready to suffer and to stand completely at the will of his beloved is not worthy to be called a lover, for it behooves a lover gladly to suffer all hard and bitter things for his beloved, and not to fall from love because of any irksome thing that may befall him.
Thomas A Kempis
#95. But he would never join their number, never be a member of the smiling retinue of former lovers. He considered that sort of behavior rather beastly, in fact immoral. He refused to be turned from a lover into a dear friend. He was uninterested in that transition.
Julian Barnes
#96. Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago ... Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.
Carl Jung
#97. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
Christopher Pike
#99. I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
Rumi
#100. Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
Mercedes Lackey
