Romance Quotes

1581 Romance quotes by 980 unique authors

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — Oscar Wilde
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. — Bernard Williams
Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in… — Marianne Williamson
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the… — George Edward Woodberry
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. — Virginia Woolf
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman… — Helen Fisher
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your… — Helen Fisher
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' — Helen Fisher
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and… — Helen Fisher
Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive. — Helen Fisher
Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap. — Helen Fisher
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize… — Helen Fisher
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy,… — Elie Wiesel
He's like a drug for you, Bella. — Stephenie Meyer
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. — Oscar Wilde
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — William Shakespeare
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader… — Louisa May Alcott
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual… — John Eldredge
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you. — Charlotte Bronte
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… — Leo Tolstoy
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home… — Robert Frost

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