#lover

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#between #every #forth #fugue #last

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#believe #clover #dream #entwined #flowers

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. ↗

— Plato

#gain #honor #lovers #men #three

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#explicit #hope #lover #refusal #seldom

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#between #difference #greater #hardly #husband

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#artists #began #beginnings #beloved #between

Who can blind lover's eyes? ↗

— Virgil

#eyes #lover #who

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#lover #modesty #more #praised #quality

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. ↗

— Theocritus

#eye #faults #lover

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. ↗