At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Sc. 2 ]

Of lunatics, not lovers.

Lovers who dispute adore. [ Proverb ]

Night is the gala-day of lovers. [ Yemon ]

Virtue hath few Platonic lovers. [ Proverb ]

Lovers are as punctual as the sun. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Quarrels of lovers renew their love. [ Terence ]

Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. [ Proverb ]

It is the hour when from the boughs
The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour when lovers' vows
Seem sweet in every whispered word. [ Byron ]

Quarrels of lovers - renewals of love. [ Proverb ]

Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. [ Proverb ]

Now from the world,
Sacred to sweet retirement, lovers steal,
And pour their souls in transport. [ Thomson ]

Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. [ Ovid ]

But love is blind and lovers can not see
The pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II. Sc. 6 ]

Let not the cooings of the world allure thee;
Which of her lovers ever found her true? [ Young ]

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. [ William Shakespeare ]

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night.
Like softest music to attending ears! [ William Shakespeare ]

O nightingale, that on yon blooming spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lovers heart doth fill! [ Milton ]

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

The sweet forget-me-nots that grow for happy lovers. [ Tennyson ]

A prude ought to be condemned to meet only indiscreet lovers.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. [ Bailey ]

Lovers complain of their hearts, but the distemper is in their heads. [ Proverb ]

Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. [ La Roche ]

Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. [ Bulwer ]

As in the soft and sweet eclipse, when soul meets soul on lovers' lips. [ Shelley ]

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

I will love you always! This is the eternal lie that lovers tell with the greatest sincerity.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words, in which each syllable is a caress. [ Rochepedre ]

O kiss! mysterious beverage that the lips of lovers pour into each other, as into thirsty cups! [ A. de Musset ]

The quarrels of lovers are like summer showers that leave the country more verdant and beautiful. [ Mme. Necker ]

The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms: everything is more beautiful when they have passed. [ Madame Necker ]

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their eyes. [ Montaigne ]

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The falling-out of wits is like the falling-out of lovers: we agree in the main, like treble and bass. [ Congreve ]

The heart of a coquette is like a rose, of which the lovers pluck the leaves, leaving only the thorns for the husband.

A lover is a man who endeavors to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be: this is the reason why almost all lovers are ridiculous. [ Chamfort ]

Gruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in others, not in themselves. [ Colton ]

Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]

Friendship may outlive love and its passions; for instances have not unfrequently occurred, in which parties who have ceased to regard each other as lovers, have been found necessary as friends and confidential advisers. [ Mme. de Pompadour ]

Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]