Quotes About Romance

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

You need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

There was madness and magic in the slim body he held, and the lips turned up to him were red and trembling and he kissed her.

I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. Everybody is looking. If no one were looking, would you care?

His one great flaw was making the terrible and exhilarating mistake of falling in love with Scarlett O'Hara.

With the introduction of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler, Miss Mitchell managed to create the two most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. Scarlett springs alive in the first sentence of the book and holds the narrative center for over a thousand pages. She is a fabulous, pixilated, one-of-a-kind creation, and she does not utter a dull line in the entire book.

She married Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left her too breathless to oppose his ardor any longer.

had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy. Oh, all the tricks that never failed to work—except with Ashley.

How wonderful it would be never to marry but to go on being lovely in pale green dresses and forever courted by handsome men.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

You want me to say it? All right, I'll say it. I love you." He

All she could think of was that she loved him--everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.

You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen.

My news is this, he answered, grinning down at her. I still want you more than any woman I've ever seen and now that Frank's gone, I thought you'd be interested to know it.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.