Flames Quote by Honore de Balzac

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

— Cesare Pavese

“They had been under physical strain for the last few days — days full of brutality, fear, and death. Their lives were at risk…

— James R. Sanford

This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.

— Julia Quinn

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of…

— Jean M. Auel

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

— Honore de Balzac

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped…

— Anonymous

Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

— Honore de Balzac

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover…

— Plato

Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties

— William Shakespeare

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals.

— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer