Love & Romance: Romantic Quotes

"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first"

Janeane Garofalo, Comedian

"I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"I do like to belong to a man"

Eva Mendes, Actress

"I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV"

Jeremy London, Actor

"I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings"

Denise Richards, Actress

"We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you, or I found coming up"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials"

Ashley Scott, Actress

"There's nothing colder than chemistry"

Anita Loos, Writer

"In Rio Bravo, when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning, where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!"

Angie Dickinson, Actress

"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling"

John Badham, Director

"The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed, with nothing concealed, is a bore"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up"

Cat Deeley, Celebrity

"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula"

Bela Lugosi, Actor

"And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting"

Adrian Lyne, Director

"Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out?"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem"

Janet Fitch, Author

"I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other"

Robert Pattinson, Actor

"Sex is a discovery"

Fannie Hurst, Writer

"Basically, I'm a romantic"

Pia Zadora, Actress

"But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, and I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too"

Sean Penn, Actor

"It's a delight to trust somebody so completely"

Jeff Goldblum, Actor

"In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it"

Kathleen Quinlan, Actress

"You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning"

Young Buck, Musician

"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man"

Lawrence Kasdan, Producer

"I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love"

Nick Carter, Musician

"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have"

J. M. Barrie, Novelist

"The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward"

Shana Alexander, Journalist

"I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered"

M. Night Shyamalan, Director

"When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending"

Jeanne Moreau, Actress

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