#lover

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

#american life #between #choose #destroys #eroticism

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ↗

— Stephen King

#duty #endlessly #friends #lie #lovers

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #been #extracted #husband #left

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#art #bachelor #boy #fault #lies

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#confession #dangerous #dangerous thing #little #lovers

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#dozen #easier #guessing #half #keep

Today was a rocket ship of a day. If you guessed that today was Monday (Moonday), you’d win the “Astronauts Make Better Lovers” Award. But I say, Take off your fucking helmet when I’m talking to you. And do they really make better lovers? I say, Put on your concrete boots, Lunar Child III, and come back to earth. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#lovers #funny

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ↗

— George Santayana

#absolute #any #beauty #disguise #good

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#collectors #lovers #music #parents #were