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We would prefer to see the House run bya philistine with the requisite financial acumen than by the succession of opera and ballet lovers who have brought a great and valuable institution to its knees.
Gerald Kaufman— 1997 Report of the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee on Covent Garden, 3 Dec.
Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
Alexander Pope— 1714 The Rape of the Lock, canto1, l.15-16.
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Abigail Adams— Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776).
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.
Djuna Barnes— Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.
thomas malory— Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469), Book XVIII, ch. 25
All her lovers have passed, her beautiful lovers have passed,The young and eager men that fought for her arrogant hand,And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the lastIs the voice of the lonely land.
vita sackville-west— "Mariana In The North"
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!
Matthew Arnold— "The Buried Life" (1852), st. 2.
Oh, we have had great lovers that we followed to the pyre; Our boasts out-do the Sabine girls the Mosque of St. Sophia. And we are very sure of ours, for when a city falls, They seize us and they love us and they hurl us from the walls.
nathalia crane— "Our Lovers"
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
— Act II, scene 4, lines 53-56.
Fathers, be good to your daughters, Daughters will love like you do, Girls become lovers who turn into mothers, So mothers be good to your daughters too.
john mayer— "Daughters" (2003)
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection. The lovers, the Dreamers, and me.
Kermit the Frog— "The Rainbow Connection," from The Muppet Movie (1979)
Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
john dryden— Palamon and Arcite, book ii, line 758.
There may be dead ground in between; and I may not have got The knack of judging a distance; I will only venture A guess that perhaps between me and the apparent lovers, (Who, incidentally, appear by now to have finished,) At seven o'clock from the houses, is roughly a distance Of about one year and a half.
Henry Reed— 1946 Lessons of theWar, pt.2,'Judging Distances'.
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
— Letter to an unidentified friend (1489), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope.
alexander mccall smith— Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, chapter 5
When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon. Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon. And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night: We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.
leonard cohen— "Sisters of Mercy"
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
ayumi hamasaki— Appears
In negotiating with rejected lovers or husbands, women must stop thinking they can make everyone happy. In many cases of harassment and stalking, it is clear that the woman never learned how to terminate the fantasy which requires resolution and decisiveness on their part. Wavering, dithering, or passive hysterical fear will only intensify or prolong pursuit.
camille paglia— p. 47 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
paul theroux— Living With Geese, Smithsonian Magazine (December 2006)
They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
dylan thomas— And Death Shall Have No Dominion, st. 1 (1943)
Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
— Westward Hoe, Act II, scene ii. See also Wine, Friendship.
King James' favorite male lovers were the Earl of Somerset and the Duke of Buckingham.
— Ben Edward Akerly, The X-rated Bible[ ]
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking (God warn us!) matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
— Rosalind, Sc. i
lovers come and go, the river roll, roll, roll.
robert hunter— "Brokedown Palace"
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
lord byron— Parisina, Stanza 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
