Romance Quotes: New, Funny, For Him
While staring into your lover’s eyes, romance quotes strike up images of candlelight dinners, romantic background music, and heartfelt conversations.
The whole concept of love takes on different meanings given certain situations. Many a person have 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
1.) The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
2.) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley
3.) French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
4.) If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
Bernard Williams
Romance Quotes for Him
5.) 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
6.) Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
7.) Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley
8.) When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
9.) One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Aphra Benn
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Romantic Sayings
10.) 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
11.) 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
12.) The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence.
Edward Thomas
13.) 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
14.) 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
15.) Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
16.) You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
Arthur Conan Doyle
17.) The best smell in the world is the man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
18.) Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
19.) 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
20.) You are my glue. Without you, I’d be nothing but broken pieces.
Miley Cyrus
21.) I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
True Romance Quotations
22.) 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
23.) To be brave is to love someone unconditionally without expecting anything in return.
Madonna
24.) Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bach
25.) When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
26.) Tradition wears a snowy beard; romance is always young.
John Greenleaf Whittier
27.) Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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28.) True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.
Nicholas Sparks
29.) The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
Josiah G. Holland
30.) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
31.) The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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32.) Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
33.) My soul may be returned to the heavens, but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.
Richard Dominguez
34.) 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
35.) A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin
36.) 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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37.) If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Herman Hesse
38.) Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
39.) Justice is the loveliest, and health is the best. But the sweetest to obtain is the heart’s desire.
Aristotle
40.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
41.) If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
Kahlil Gibran
42.) Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
43.) There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
44.) 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
45.) Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish.
Ashton Kutcher
46.) 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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47.) Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
Alphonse de Lamartine
48.) We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
Derrick Jensen
49.) Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.
Carl Jung
50.) 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)
51.) Every great love starts with a great story.
Nicholas Sparks
52.) Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Benjamin Disraeli
Romantic Love Quotes
53.) Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
54.) So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
55.) There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen
56.) People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Famous Romance Quotes
57.) Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
58.) There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
59.) Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
60.) Doubt thou the stars do are fire; Doubt thou the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare
61.) I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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62.) When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
When Harry Met Sally
63.) You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
Pride and Prejudice
64.) Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
The Princess Bride
65.) I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy asking him to love her.
Notting Hill
66.) I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Short Love Quotes
67.) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
68.) A true love story never ends.
Unknown
69.) Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
70.) Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
Virginia Woolf
71.) Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
72.) Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
The Princess Bride
Best Romance Quotes
73.) Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein
74.) I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.
Leo Christopher
75.) He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
76.) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
77.) There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
78.) I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
J.R.R. Tolkien
79.) You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life
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