Love & Romance: Romantic Quotes

"There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"Your greatest achievement is to love me"

Prince Charles, Royalty

"I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face"

Stendhal, Writer

"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery"

Stendhal, Writer

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness!"

Stendhal, Writer

"Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion"

Stendhal, Writer

"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"

Stendhal, Writer

"People happy in love have an air of intensity"

Stendhal, Writer

"Too fair to worship, too divine to love"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

"When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air, clad in the beauty of a thousand stars"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"The Grail is the womb of the beloved"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership)"

O. Henry, Writer

"Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"Anyone who's a great kisser, I'm always interested in"

Cher, Musician

"The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on"

John Gay, Poet

"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die"

Robert Southey, Poet

"I don't think when I make love"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"I always find people who are unique very attractive"

Gina Gershon, Actress

"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"While mantling on the maiden's cheek, young roses kindled into thought"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream"

Thomas Moore, Poet

"I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

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