Quotes About Romance

Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.

It is a true error to marry with poetsor to be by them.

But the measuring up came first, not the love--don't marry for money, but marry where money is. Did men think like this? No, they didn't. They fell in love; then imagined that because they were in love, the girl would automatically measure up to their requirements too. They couldn't really love someone just as they were. And then when they found out that they hadn't got the person they had wanted--which was little wonder, since she'd never existed--the trouble started.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.

It's important to marry someone you love, but it's also important to marry someone you like. In other words, you like being together, you like to do the same things, you like each other. You're friends! Romance may have ups and downs, but friendship endures.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

I sleep with thee, and wake with thee, And yet thou are not there; I fill my arms with thoughts of thee, And press the common air.

Young people who need a love potion very seldom have five thousand dollars. If they had they would not need a love potion.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

You Fill Up My Senses

We don't fall in love with a woman because of her good character.

I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry.

Duplicated: Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; ... (Repeated twice)

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school-boys and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride, Call country ants to harvest offices ; Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

lovers' hours be full eternity

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.

In another life, I would be your belle

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

All my life I have dreamed of you.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore