Quotes About Romance

Upon my word, I tell you faithfully Through life and after death you are my queen; For with my death the whole truth shall be seen. Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly; Their beauty shakes me who was once serene; Straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.

People act differently when they're in love with different people. We tend to match our expressed interests and preferences to those of a desired individual.

Verbal courtship continues for months after people first meet, and it becomes the bedrock of human intimacy and love.

Oh,eine sterbende Liebe ist schöner als eine werdende

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone

She is to him the reality of romance, the leaner good sense of nonsense, the unveiling of his eyes, the freeing of his soul, the abolition of time, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanctification of all the dogmas.

I am sorry to say that it is a common practice with romancers to announce their hero as a man of extraordinary genius, and to leave his works entirely to the reader's imagination; so that at the end of the book you whisper to yourself ruefully that but for the author's solemn preliminary assurance you should hardly have given the gentleman credit for ordinary good sense.

what is a Don Juan? Vulgarly, a libertine.

The rest of the story need not be shown in action, and indeed, would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the ready-makes and reach-me-downs of the ragshop in which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings" to misfit all stories.

And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind her, and to whom she is grateful.

Has any one ever pinched into its pilulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?

She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could be the occasion of such delightful aerial building as she had been enjoying for the last six months.

The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.

Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless.

was a fervor which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events of every-day life.

have been little disposed to gather flowers that would wither in my hand, but now I shall pluck them with eagerness, to place them in your bosom.

there are many blanks left in the weeks of courtship which a loving faith fills with happy assurance.

I wonder how girls manage to fall in love. It is easy to make them do it in books. But men are too ridiculous. Gwendolen Harleth

I trust that you will find in marriage a new fountain of duty and affection. Marriage is the only true and satisfactory sphere of a woman, and if your marriage with Mr Grandcourt should be happily decided upon, you will probably have an increasing power, both of rank and wealth, which may be used for the benefit of others. These considerations are something higher than romance.

And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her, and to whom she is grateful. I should have thought that I, at least, might have been safe from all that.