A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
Ivor Novello

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
Sextus Propertius

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

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

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
Karen Allen

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut

For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you.
Krzysztof Kieslowski

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
Lewis Mumford

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.
Brigitte Boisselier

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