Famous Romance Quotes

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
By Glenn Beck on Cynicism

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
By Luciano de Crescenzo on Angels

When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.
By Oscar Wilde on Deception

Love is fire. But whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.
By Jason Jordan on Fire

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
By Author Unknown on Freedom and Love

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
By Oscar Wilde on Humour

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
By Bern Williams on June

Romance is about the little things.
By Gregory J. Godeck on Little Things

Love isn't just for the smart of talented, but for all the amimals God created.
By Sarah Wonders on Love

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
By Franklin P. Jones on Love

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
By Ursula K. LeGuin on Love

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
By Christopher Morley on Love

In all that we do let us do it for love.
By Chris Cotton on Love

In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
By Margaret C. Anderson on Love

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love, and nothing, not even you.
By Marquis de Lafayette on Love

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
By Thomas Mann on Love

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.
By Julie Marie on Love as Medicine

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
By George W. Bush on Love is Eternal

Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
By Cecilia Egan on Marriage

Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.
By Oscar Wilde on Men and Women

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
By Leo Buscaglia on Perfect Love

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
By Jason Jordan on Perfection

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
By Anna Louise Strong on Right Person

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
By D. H. Lawrence on Romance

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
By Walter Raleigh on Romance

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
By Elizabeth Ashley on Romance

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
By Benjamin Disraeli on Romance

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
By Elinor Glyn on Romance

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
By Anita Brookner on Romantic Love

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
By Anita Brookner on Romantic Love

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
By Fran Lebowitz on Romantic Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
By David Viscott on Sun

Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
By Dinah Shore on Trouble

The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
By Jill Jones on Variety

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
By Sarah Bernhardt on Words