While staring into your lover’s eyes, romance quotes strike up images of candlelight dinners, romantic background music, and heartfelt conversations. But the whole concept of love takes on different meanings given certain situations. Many a person has done silly things in the name of love.
From traditional to unconventional, our collection of sayings and quotations will have you thinking about those times when “love is in the air.”
Quotes About Romance
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bernard Williams
Romance Quotes for Him
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.
Charles Stanley
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Aphra Benn
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Romantic Sayings
You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together to see if we know what we were taught.
Boris Pasternak
I never loved you any more than I do right this second. And I’ll never love you any less than I do right this second.
Kami Garcia
The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.
Edward Thomas
For it was not into my ear, you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her.
Charles Stanley
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Passion and Devotion Sayings
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The best smell in the world is the man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.
Marilyn Monroe
You are my glue. Without you, I’d be nothing but broken pieces.
Miley Cyrus
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
True Romance Quotations
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Victor Hugo
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna
Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Tradition wears a snowy beard; romance is always young.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Love and Romance
True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
Josiah G. Holland
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
My soul may be returned to the heavens, but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.
Richard Dominguez
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph; I don’t know what she was – anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant.
Charles Dickens
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Romantic Sayings
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Justice is the loveliest, and health is the best. But the sweetest to obtain is the heart’s desire.
Aristotle
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. And I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Humphrey Bogart
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish.
Ashton Kutcher
Lust is temporary, and romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
Danielle Steel
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Enchantment Expressions
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Alphonse de Lamartine
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
Derrick Jensen
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
Carl Jung
Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people’s hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better.
Guy Kawasaki (The Original Apple Evangelist)
Every great love starts with a great story.
Nicholas Sparks
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike has authored several books and is the editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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