Love & Romance: Romantic Quotes

"I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"If I dated as many people as they said I have, then I would be dead, because it's just not possible"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore"

William Godwin, Writer

"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women"

Billy Joel, Musician

"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron"

Christian Bale, Actor

"When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"All women think men look good in suits. To be honest, I like the way they look, too"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight"

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced"

James Lafferty, Actor

"The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm, and living there in her heart, loyal to you"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was"

Carol Alt, Model

"Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience"

Maurice Chevalier, Actor

"Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it"

Maurice Chevalier, Actor

"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"In the early days of Christianity, the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes, which shocked austere moralists"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"And she was fair as is the rose in May"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough"

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

"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 various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity"

Kate Millett, Activist

"I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none"

Gene Tierney, Actress

"I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass"

Rupert Brooke, Poet

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

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