#lover

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#angel #assures #babe #before #born

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#brave #follow #lovers #star #young

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#lover #without

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#each #lovers #other #over #period

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#adultery #after #allow #between #consequently

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lovers #equality

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#boy #comic #comic strips #fan #great

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#animal #animal lover #around #being #big

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#brother #father #friend #heart #heaven