romance quotes

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Love is an interesting thing.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

All mankind love a lover.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

My wife and I love each other very much.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

All you need is love.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.