Romance Quotes

1581 Romance quotes by 980 unique authors

thus with a kiss I die — William Shakespeare
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads… — Carl Sandburg
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. — Jane Austen
Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at the memory. "We… — Megan Whalen Turner
Thou art to me a delicious torment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE. — Meg Cabot
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the… — Louisa May Alcott
You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending. — Julia Quinn
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. — Julia Quinn
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in… — Jeanette Winterson
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around… — Janet Evanovich
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music… — Nick Hornby
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. — Oscar Wilde
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
Till I loved I never lived. — Emily Dickinson
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite. — Richelle Mead
You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it… — Richelle Mead
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a… — Elizabeth Gilbert
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. — William Shakespeare
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. — Jeanette Winterson
Attraction is not an option. — Neil Strauss
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan
True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. — Nicholas Sparks
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Unknown Author
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter… — Michael Ondaatje

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