Un homme n'a jamais pu e¤  lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'   lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

L'amoureux qui n'oublie pas quelquefois meurt par exce'  s, fatigue et tension de me¤  moire (tel Werther). The lover who does not forget sometimes dies from excess, fatigue, and the strain of memory (like Werther).

-Barthes, Roland
  Fragments d'un discours amoureux.

And my fause Luver staw my rose, But, ah! he left the thorn wi'me.

-Burns, Robert
  'The Banks o' Doon' (2nd version), stanza 2.

Give me a lover bold and free, Not eunuched with formality.

-Cleveland,John
  'The  Antiplatonic'.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

-Congreve,William
  Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 2, sc.4.

There is no fury like an ex-wife looking for a new lover.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

For here the lover and killer are mingled who had one body and one heart. And death, who had the soldier singled has done the lover mortal hurt.

-Douglas, Gavin
  'Vergissmeinnicht'.

All mankind love a lover. 312

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
Essays: First Series,'Love'.

Have I a lover Who is noble and free? I would he were nobler Than to love me.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  'The Sphinx', stanza12.

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'The Lesson for Today'.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

-Gibbon, Edward
On his enforced visit to Lausanne, leaving behind Suzanne Curchod. Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.4. This passage was inserted (from a draft) by Lord Sheffield.

   I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold meöwould 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 couchönor the heaven above herö As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
'The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

   A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
'The Swimmer', stanza10, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

For a woman to have a liaison is almost always pardonable, and occasionally, when the lover chosen is sufficiently distinguished, even admirable.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  Occupation: Writer,'Lars Porsena'.

Et si uxoris nomen sanctius ac validius videtur, dulcius mihi semper exstitit amic× vocabulum; aut si non indigneris, concubin× vel scorti. Ifthename of wifeseemsmore blessed or more binding, always sweeter to me will be the word lover, or if I may, concubine or whore.

-He¤  lo|«  se
c.1135  First letter to Peter  Abelard.

Having a lover isn't much to write home about.

-Hyde, Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson
  The Godwits Fly, ch.17.

And thushit passes onfrome Candylmasuntyll Ester, that the moneth of May was com, whan every lusty harte begynnith to blossom and to burgyne. For, lyke as trees and erbys burgenyth and florysshyth in May, lyke wyse every lusty harte that is ony maner of lover spryngith, burgenyth, buddyth, and florysshyth in lusty dedis.

-Malory, SirThomas   d.1471
c.1470  Morte d'Arthur, bk.18, ch.25.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injured lover's hell.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.449^50.

William behaved like a bashful girl, who is afraid of her lover's bad reputation and therefore avoids being alone with him.

-Napoleon I
Of  William I of Prussia, who invited other German Princes to attend a meeting with Napoleon at Baden-Baden in  June originally intended to be a private discussion on the possibility of a joint alliancewith Russia. Quotedin  A  JP  Taylor Struggle for Mastery in Europe1848^1918 (1954), p.121.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Ballade of a GreatWeariness'.