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Quotes About Romance

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
It was odd, he thought... to be in love with a girl at once so musical and so heavily armed.
~ Adam Gopnik
It hadn't been love at first sight, but it was pretty damn close. He was so funny and charming and smart. All the books he'd read. All the stuff he knew.
~ Adrian McKinty
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
~ Adriana Trigiani
Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.
~ Adriana Trigiani
She savored their conversation, and often, when doing her chores, she remembered the words he said to her and how hopeful he was that she might kiss him again. Now she wished she had. because one kiss is not enough.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Adriana Trigiani
~ Orecchiette.
He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.
~ Adriana Trigiani
A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Who's the artist? My favorite. She pauses. Unknown. Edydie sits cross-legged on the couch. There is something so pure about an artist creating something for the sheer joy of it, then sharing it with people and claiming no credit. To me that's the height of romance.
~ Adriana Trigiani
The Lion was so much in love that he had his claws trimmed and his big teeth taken out for her.
~ Aesop
Desde entonces a Eros y el pudor no se les volvió a ver juntos.
~ Aesop
I've noticed this: when it's the first date, and you fuck, the guy hold you much better than he does the next few times. The first date, you're sort of the stand-in for whomever he loved last, before he fully realizes that you're not her, and so you get all this nice residue emotion. I felt cherished, tucked into his belly, like we'd known each other for years and I was his wonderful girl and we both slept great.
~ Aimee Bender
Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.
~ Aimee Bender
We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.
~ Aimee Bender
We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.
~ Aimee Bender
so much like riding dangerous women with whiskey coloured eyes - such women as once fell dead with their lovers with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs
~ Al Purdy
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief.
~ Alain de Botton
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
~ Alain de Botton
The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
~ Alain de Botton
The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
~ Alain de Botton
Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.
~ Alain de Botton