L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.”
“Lovers know what they want, but not what they need.”
“Lovers' language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn't offend against the rules of good style, to say what they were and what they did to me. Undertow eyes? Why not? Undertow. That's the notion that the new expression put in my head. They held some kind of mysterious, active fluid, a force that dragged one in, like the undertow of a wave retreating from the shore on stormy days. So as not to be dragged in, I held onto anything around them, her ears, her arms, her hair spread about her shoulders; but as soon as I returned to the pupils of her eyes again, the wave emerging from them grew towards me, deep and dark, threatening to envelop me, draw me in and swallow me up.”
Source: Dom Casmurro
“Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff”
“Lovers look in the pants, they look in the eyes.”
“Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.”
“Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call.”
“Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us.”
“Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.”
“Lovers need to know how to lose themselves and then how to find themselves again.”
“Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.”
“Lovers never hate, haters never love.”
“Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.”
“Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.”
“Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.”
Source: Love is a Stranger
“Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.”
“Lovers of dishonesty caress you with one hand and 'steal' from you with the other. If there is no 'profit' for them, you will be cast down without any mercy.”
“Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.”
Source: The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
“Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.”
Source: The Engineer of Human Souls
“Lovers of luxury have always been among us. They usually self-collate into a confederacy of upper-crust who are lured by exciting distractions that borrow their time, rarely giving it back. Instead of loving people and using money, Gogs love money and use people. (1Joh 2:16) Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 6”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.”
“Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.”
“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
“Lovers of surface are destined to fall.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.”
“Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.”
Source: Stealing Athena: A Novel
“Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.”
“Lovers re-create the world.”
Source: Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation
“Lovers remain in each other's energy fields for 21 days after intercourse. Renewed with each act. Do the math. Choose wisely... otherwise you're carrying that stink with you for a long time...Stop having sex right now!...All of you. Until you know you're not giving yourselves away." - Sheerah”
Source: Donny and Ursula Save the World
“Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.”
“Lovers remember everything.
[Lat., Meminerunt omnia amantes.]”
“Lovers running each to each
Feel such timid dreams catch fire
Blazing as they touch,
Learn what love alone can teach:
Happy on a tousled bed
Praise Blake's acumen who said:
'One thing only we require
Of each other; we must see
In another's lineaments
Gratified desire';
That is our humanity;
Nothing else contents.”
“Lovers should also have their days off.”
“Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Lovers, they say, look for a complete reflection of themselves in each other. Like Narcissus and his pool, where each was enamored by his reflection in the other’s eyes. (Fragments of Future Memories)”
Source: Each of Us Killers
“Lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.”
Source: I Shall Not Be Moved
“Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him.”
Source: Country Sentiment
“Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become Siamese twins.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.”
Source: A Preface to Morals
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
Source: The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
“lovers will come and go. "Most of them are going to break your heart. "But there’s always that one that is perfect for you.”
“Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.”
“Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.”
Source: World Without End
“Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.”
Source: Robert Frost
“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.”
Source: The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author
“Lovers, like dying men, may well
At first disorder'd be,
Since none alive can truly tell
What Fortune they must see.”
“Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.”