(336 quotes found)
“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Stephen King
“The only difference between friends and lovers is about four minutes.”
Scott Roeben
“At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit, For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy”
William Shakespeare
“The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.”
Charles Pierce
“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.”
Lord Byron
“All lovers swear more performance than they are able”
“A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.”
“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!”
Dorothy Parker
“It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
