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Quotes About Lover

Now, if wisdom is God, who made all things, as is attested by the divine authority and truth, then the philosopher is a lover of God.
~ St. Augustine
Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.
~ Brandon Bays
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.
~ Bertrand Russell
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
Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.
~ Debasish Mridha
Don't worry about him, she would say, that's how he is—every time we start an argument I end up with a monologue. Or Some husbands take lovers, mine he take the Fifth.
~ Michael Chabon
Begin your career as a copywriting lover, not a fighter, and you will always be doubly blessed — with good money and goodwill.
~ Michael Masterson
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
All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.
~ Michael Ondaatje
In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence. A woman in Cairo curves the white length of her body up from the bed and leans out of the window into a rainstorm to allow her nakedness to receive it
~ Michael Ondaatje
I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.
~ Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.
~ Keith Sullivan
Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.
~ Bob Dylan
My domineering lover made no apologies for his caveman tendencies.
~ Sylvia Day
Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every day and was awed by it, but not nearly as much as I was by the charming, wryly amusing lover I had entirely to myself in our private moments together.
~ Sylvia Day
I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.
~ Sylvia Plath
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.
~ Sylvia Plath
Again, this is a death. Is it the air, The particles of destruction I suck up? Am I a pulse That wanes and wanes, facing the cold angel? Is this my lover then? This death, this death?
~ Sylvia Plath
I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.
~ Ann Nocenti
Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
~ Harry Crosby