Samuel Lover

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

 * 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).