100+ Romance Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "David Lyons Talks SAFE HAVEN, Getting Involved with the Film, Working with Director Lasse Hallström and Nicholas Sparks, and NBC’s REVOLUTION". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

topic: Romance, Actors, Certain

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

- David Nicholls

topic: Night, Romance, Atmosphere, Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

- Debbie Macomber

topic: Book, Inspiration, Romance

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

- Debbie Macomber

topic: Romance, Important, Emotion

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Running, Morning, Romance, Different Directions

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

- Denis de Rougemont

source: Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

topic: Love Is, Romance, Existence

Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.

- Derek R. Audette

topic: Life, Drama, Romance, Special Effects

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

- Dev Patel

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Talking, Romance, Smooth, Antonio, Loving Person

Trace of Magic caught me up fast and pulled me in tight for a fun, action-and-sass adventure full of deadly magic and dangerous romance. Diana Pharaoh Francis delivers a downright terrific read.

- Devon Monk

topic: Fun, Adventure, Romance, Sass

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Flower, Heart, Romance, Snapping, Claire Fraser

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

- Diane Kruger

topic: Romance, Better Person, Persons

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

- Dick Gregory

topic: Running, Airports, Romance, Malnutrition, Ethiopia

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

- Dionne Brand

source: Dionne Brand (1990). “No language is neutral”, McClelland & Stewart

topic: Romance, Firsts, Sexuality

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

- Donny Osmond

source: "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.

topic: America, Romance, Selfishness

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.

- Duff Cooper

source: Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber

topic: Wine, Romance, Literature, Lurking, Wine And Life

Love is the whole and more than all.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Love, Romantic, Romance

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

- E. L. James

topic: Giving, Romance, Twists

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

- E. M. Forster

source: E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

topic: Love, Romantic, Romance, Possible Love, Muddle

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Romance, Pairs, Unexpected

The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

- E. M. Forster

topic: Believe, Essence, Romance, Howards End

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship, Incompleteness

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Running, Hands, Romance

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

- Edgar Friedenberg

topic: Romance, Alcohol, Should

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

- Edward Burnett Tylor

source: Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.5

topic: Romance

If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

- Edward Norton

topic: Running, Romance, Trying

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

- Edward Ruscha

topic: Paris, Romance, London, Captivated

Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or false, cast round it by romance, it will still remain a prosaic, indisputable fact, that the whole business of begetting, bearing and rearing children, is the most essential of all the nation's businesses.

- Eleanor Rathbone

topic: Family, Children, Romance, Rearing A Child, Begets

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

- Elizabeth Ashley

topic: Romantic, Play, Romance, Great Romance

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

topic: Night, Romance, Brave

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

- Elizabeth Kostova

topic: Lonely, Romance, Ruins, Sharp Edges

I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.

- Elizabeth Proctor

topic: Dating, Romance, Honest, Honest Love

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

- Elizabeth Samet

source: Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.55, Macmillan

topic: Military, War, Romance, Allure, Military Life

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Romance, Literature, Innocence

I guess I started running when I was about 18 and... I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.

- Ellie Goulding

topic: Running, Creativity, Romance

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

- Emil Zatopek

topic: Running, Practice, Romance

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

- Emily Blunt

topic: Clothes, Appreciate, Romance

For love is immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Romantic, Romance

Till I loved I never lived.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Romantic, Romance, Loving Children, Meaning Of Love

common sense is the enemy of romance

- Eric Jerome Dickey

source: Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Waking with Enemies”, p.148, Penguin

topic: Common Sense, Romance, Enemy

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Ideas, Romance, Mind, Intoxicated, Full Life

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

- Ernestine Rose

source: Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: Reality, Romance, Stubborn, Sad Reality

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Kids, Romance, Film

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Romantic Love, Thinking, Romance, Romantic Person, Sentimental Value

Our love is the reason romance was created.

- Faraaz Kazi

topic: Love Is, Romance, Our Love

Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

- Frederick Lewis Allen

topic: Love, Romance, Moments

Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

- Frederick The Great

topic: Europe, Imagination, Romance

When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.

- Fredric Brown

source: Fredric Brown (2016). “The Fabulous Clipjoint”, p.96, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Beautiful, Inspiration, Romance, Seeing Yourself

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

- Gabrielle Zevin

topic: Romance, Done, Littles

In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt

- Gackt

topic: Romance, Important, What's Important

I want to be with you forever and beyond...

- Gail Carson Levine

source: "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

topic: Romance, Forever, Want, Want To Be With You, I Want To Be With You

...and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever...

- Gayle Forman

topic: School, Romance, Forever

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

- Gena Showalter

source: Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.215, Harlequin

topic: Romance

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

- Gena Showalter

source: Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

topic: Romance, Fairy Tale, Online, Romance Novel

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

- George Canning

source: George Canning (1854). “Poetry of the anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies, and jeux-d'esprit of George Canning ...”, p.137

topic: Romance, Three, Hills, Derby

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

- George Croly

source: George Croly (1840). “A memoir of the political life of ... Edmund Burke”

topic: Romance, Example

Honor the ocean of love.

- George de Benneville

topic: Romantic, Ocean, Romance

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Art, Hands, Romance

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.