Lover

Famous quotes containing the word lover:

“for never yet
Has lover lived, but longed to wive
Like them that are no more alive.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)