Love & Romance: Romantic Quotes

"Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning"

John Walters, Musician

"I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week, wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind"

Wentworth Miller, Actor

"Sometimes when you least expect it, love has a way of finding you"

June Carter Cash, Musician

"No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

"It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark"

William McFee, Writer

"I worship the quicksand he walks in"

Art Buchwald, Journalist

"I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!"

Kirstie Alley, Actress

"I think there's a little bit of sizzling here. Honestly, I can feel it. The ions are flying back and forth"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"We live in a kissy society"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost"

Leslie Caron, Actress

"There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand"

Charles Morgan, Novelist

"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

Edmund Waller, Poet

"A narrow compass! And yet there dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round"

Edmund Waller, Poet

"The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall"

Allison Krauss, Musician

"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again"

Rebecca Romijn, Actress

"I just want to get a Ph.D. in love"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out"

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Actress

"More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar"

Norman Jewison, Director

"Love's tongue is in his eyes"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady, and now that you're single, I want to meet you for a drink"

Elizabeth Hurley, Actress

"Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor"

Tab Hunter, Actor

"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin"

Elizabeth Hurley, Actress

"I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no physical attraction at all. He was very much attracted to me"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, that now she knows, when I resemble her to thee, how sweet and fair she seems to be"

Edmund Waller, Poet

"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else"

Emma Watson, Actress

"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together, I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him"

Dawn Powell, Writer

"Yes, for a long time, but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness"

Conor Oberst, Musician

"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic!"

Johnny Depp, Actor

"Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

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