Lover

Famous quotes containing the word lover:

“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“if thou slip thy troth and do not come at all.
As minutes in the clock do strike so call for death I shall:
To please both thy false heart, and rid myself from woe,
That rather had to die in troth than live forsaken so.”
—Unknown. The Lady Prayeth the Return of Her Lover Abiding on the Seas (l. 19–22)

“The old lover to himself: “Once more round the maypole, to see what I have missed.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)