Samuel Lover
Irish song-writer, novelist, and painter (1797-1868)
Samuel Lover (February 24, 1797 – July 6, 1868) was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, as well as a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert.
Quotes
edit- For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.
- Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.
- A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.- The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
- Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
- Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- "That 's eight times to-day that you 've kissed me before."
"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,
For there 's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.- Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- As she sat in the low-backed car
The man at the turn-pike bar
Never asked for the toll
But just rubbed his auld poll
And looked after the low-backed car.- The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Sure my love is all crost
Like a bud in the frost
And there's no use at all in my going to bed,
For 't is dhrames and not slape that comes into my head!- Molly Carew, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.
- Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs.- Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
