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Lovers Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
- Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
More Lovers Quotes
- Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Rumi
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes
- In every heart there is a room, a sanctuary safe and strong, to heal the wounds from lovers past, until a new… — Billy Joel
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister.… — Cate Blanchett
- Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made… — Leonard Cohen