lover quotations

from many & various authors

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Men are the cause of women hating one another.

                        ....La Bruyere

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hates a man for being her friend.

                ....Alexander Pope

Talk not of wasted affection:  affection never was wasted.

                      ....Longfellow

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

      ....Simone De Beauvoir

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

                     ...........Freud

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

            .......Anton Chekhov

The clever man, the clever man...............

How wisely did he reason!

But, now, alack, his wits are gone,

His wisdom's out of season.

The glance of a maiden' s eye

Have turned his head to jelly;

A monkey tumbled from a tree

Could not look half as silly!!

                  ...Thomas Mann

Age does not protect you from love.  But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

                           .....Moreau

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

                            ....Spinoza

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

     ..Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Love is blind.

  ........Geoffrey Chaucer

Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

              ...Oliver Goldsmith

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

              .......... Jane Austen