Samuel Lover Quotes

Samuel Lover , also known as "Ben Trovato" , was an Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. February 1797 – 6. July 1868
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Famous Samuel Lover Quotes

“Sure the shovel and tongs
To each other belongs.”

Samuel Lover

Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”

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Rory O' More, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And with my advice, faith I wish you'd take me.”

Samuel Lover

Widow Machree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“For a ballad's a thing you expect to find lies in.”

Samuel Lover

Paddy Blake's Echo; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 56.

“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

Samuel Lover

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.”

Samuel Lover

The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“A baby was sleeping,
Its mother was weeping,
For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.”

Samuel Lover

The Angel's Whisper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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