Romance Quotes

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I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. — Jane Austen
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner! — Ayn Rand
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a… — Diana Gabaldon
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My soul will find yours. — Jude Deveraux
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel. — Graham Greene
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the… — W. Somerset Maugham
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. — Unknown Author
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears. — Nora Roberts
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where… — Margaret Atwood
We all know interspecies romance is weird. — Tim Burton
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. — John Steinbeck
I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. — Angela Carter
Every great love starts with a great story... — Nicholas Sparks
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither… — Charlotte Bronte
Love is the only rational act. — Mitch Albom
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That… — William Shakespeare
Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,… — Stephen King
True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion. — Gordon B. Hinckley
And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a… — Anne Perry

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