Lovers

(757 votes)   The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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(814 votes)   The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(791 votes)   When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges
1844-1930, British Poet

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(773 votes)   I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Marcus Valerius Martial
40-104, Latin poet and epigrammatist

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(586 votes)   In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(554 votes)   One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Sir Edwin Arnold
1832-1904, British Poet, Journalist

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(541 votes)   We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(483 votes)   Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.

Sir Thomas Malory
1430-1471, British Author

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(467 votes)   One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(407 votes)   My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(373 votes)   A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(304 votes)   You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Violet Trefusis

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(303 votes)   Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(297 votes)   A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner
1938-, British Novelist, Art Historian

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(294 votes)   These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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