Best lovers & should Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America

“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Should Earth Strong Heaven Secret Sea Lovers Embrace Shining Depth Breasts Manifest Shade Weary Find Me Folds Shields Luminous Sleepy Secret Places Strong Love

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”

Should Lovers Silent Fishes Thyself Mute

Book:The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson

Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson

“If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?”

Ifs Should Love Is Lovers Virtuous

Author:John Lyly

“Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?”

Should Atheism Lovers Criteria Censure

Book:Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson

“A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.”

Men Should Two Lovers

Author:Leonor Fini

“If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)

“I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.”

Ifs Thinking Should Differences Lovers Husband Should Have Cynical Good Husband Good Love Good Lovers

Author:Francoise Sagan

“if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock.”

Ifs Should States America Courses United United States Taken Rocks Style Lovers Beats Like Me Conformity Tides San Francisco Disillusionment Franciscans Public Image Loyalists

Author:Jan Morris

“What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]”

Love Should Water Written Air Lovers Aqua

Author:Catullus

“My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.”

World Should Persons Made Character Mistake Audience Lovers Normal Ordinary Should Have Hollywood Sane Neurotic Ordinary Person Perfectly Normal Lead Characters

Author:Gene Wilder

“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“Life should be embraced like a lover.”

Should Lovers

Book:The Swimming Pool Season

Source: The Swimming Pool Season

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.”

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.”

Men Should Mind Long Found Women Liberty Marriage Struggle Air Bears Lovers Sexism Inclination Capricious My Lover

Book:The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

Source: The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes

“When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.”

Should Persons Poetry Company Poet Lovers Clothes Sight Wave Journalist Thieves Publishers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.”

Ifs Should Writing Hate Break Morning Lovers Letters Let Me I Hate Notes Expected Every Morning My Friendship

Author:Madame de La Fayette

“What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He must have the passion of a lover.”

Should Passion Asks Lovers Criticism Critics

Author:Arthur Symons

“A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason.”

Should Heart Reason Lovers Husband Consent

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”

Men Should Able Community Honesty Duty Lovers Brave Corruption Saved Beast Righteousness Coward Civics Hunted Wild Beasts

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.”

Ifs Should Reason Earth Moving Belief Realizing Opinion Lovers Regard Philosopher Being True Firm Boast Irritated Stand Firm

Author:Galileo Galilei

“Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.”

Should Years Lovers Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Author:Anthony Capella

“Sometimes a man gets carried away when he feels like he should be having his fun and much too blind to see the damage he's done, oh sometimes a man must awake to find that really he has no one. So I'll wait for you and I'll burn will I ever see your sweet return, oh will I ever learn? Oh, Lover you should've come over. Oh love well I'm waiting for you.”

Men Feels Should Wells Sometimes Done Fun Waiting Sweet Return Lovers Blind Awake Damage Over You Waiting For You Carried Away

Author:Jeff Buckley

“There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.”

Should Said Two Moments Certain Three Father Four Lovers Scripts Producers Over You

Author:Michael Caine

“People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!”

People Ifs Should Moments Age Social Bits Media Lovers Assuming Social Media Data Relate Lovers And Friends

Author:Aeriel Miranda

“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.”

Source: Symposium

“A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.”

Should Heart Lovers Husband Sensible Alaska

Author:Ninon de L'Enclos

“We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.”

Knows Should Trying Wells Important Father Lovers Husband Multitudes Aspire Being A Father Great Father Good Husband Best Husband Husband To Be Good Lovers

Author:Matthew Modine

“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.”

Should Believe Dream Together Left I Believe Sleep Flower Lovers Bed Clovers Entwined

Author:Conor Oberst

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”

Love Should Given Chance Lovers Sad New Beginnings Exes Second Chance Boyfriend Discarded Ex Boyfriend Endings Being New Beginnings Given A Chance New Life New Beginning Given A Second Chance

Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because it's so easy. You know one another as well as lovers do and you have had less to pretend about. I poured myself a drink and shrugged. 'Nothing's perfect.”

Knows Should Mind Wells Kind Wanted Easy Difficult Hurt Perfect Laughing Lovers Drink Defense All Kinds Justify Should I Old Friends

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.”

Should I Can Lovers Draws Gun Target Butterfly Pins Borrowed Copying Brag Wrestler

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.”

Ifs Way Should Wells Enough Home Pain Strong Pleasure Darkness Mystery Poet Grew Lovers Weak Stronger Vices Vice Versa Threshold

Book:The Hellbound Heart

Source: The Hellbound Heart

“my kingdom for a kiss upon your shoulder" lover you should have come over-”

Should Lovers Kissing Should Have Shoulders Kingdoms

Author:Jeff Buckley

“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”

Should Law Mother Father Impossible Happened Lovers Died Lays Broke Grandmother Territory Funeral Uncles Forbidden Cousin Jam Unthinkable Jelly Father Mother Thinkable

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.”

Feels Should Made Facts Youth Products Lovers Elements Eternal Tradition Guilty Betray Loyal Contemplating Adjustment Disapproval

Book:Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Source: Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

“So what name would you rather I call you? she asked as she headed out of the parking lot. Ias or Alexion. He gave her a devilish grin that set fire to her hormones. I would rather you call me lover. He wagged his eyebrows playfully at her. Danger rolled her eyes. Like all men with a onetrack mind, he was incorrigible. Don't blame me, Alexion said in an almost offended tone. I can't help it. You should see the way you fight. It really turned me on. Could you tell me how to turn you off? -Danger and Alexion”

“Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.”

Should Real Blood Lovers Draws True Love Real Love Buckets

Author:Emily Maguire

“Now I know there are ways to belong to someone that don’t take anything away. A relationship shouldn’t impose limits—and if it does, then it’s wrong. A lover should help you exceed your potential, not clip your wings.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Doe Helping Lovers Limits Wings Exceed Clip

Book:Killbox

Source: Killbox

“A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is, of course, a silly one, but I can give it a silly answer. Occasionally I come across a book which I feel has been written especially for me and for me only. Like a jealous lover I don’t want anybody else to hear of it. To have a million such readers, unaware of each other’s existence, to be read with passion and never talked about, is the daydream, surely, of every author.”

People Knows Want Giving Feels Should Writing Has Beens I Can Book Passion Courses Answers Existence Millions Written Poet Reader Lovers Silly Jealous Daydreaming

Author:W. H. Auden

“So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.”

Should Causes Waiting Sweet Return Lovers Late Too Late

Author:Jeff Buckley

“Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.”

Needs Giving Should Causes Understanding Lovers Available Turmoil

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.”

People Ifs World Should Real Matter Reason Morning Goes On Lovers All Things Disappear Saddest Life Goes On

Book:The Grass Harp

Source: The Grass Harp

“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Two Stories Song Fighting Bits Understanding Too Much Bears Lovers Should Have Agree Accepted Separation Absurd Torture Nonsense Your Best Friend

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”

“There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”

Ifs Way Want Should Humans Children Human Beings Responsibility Lovers Should Have Substitutes Having Children How To Love

Book:Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“You should always judge a book by its lovers.”

Should Book Judging Lovers

Author:Ashok K. Banker

“The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt an almost irresistible urge to take her hand and place it flat against my chest, near my heart. Maybe I should've done it. I know now that she would've laughed, if I'd done it, and she would've liked me for it. But strangers that we were then, we stood for five long seconds and held the stare, while all the parallel worlds, all the parallel lives that might've been, and never would be, whirled around us.”

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

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