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Quotes About Romance

out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.
~ Anya Seton
Lake Como, she said the little name to herself lingeringly. He had described a marble palace amongst cypress trees, had made her feel that she was there with him listening to the lap of the water, the singing of a nightingale, the love serenade of a boatman on the lake. Piangi, piangi fanciulla, he had sung for them the first line. She hadn't known that he could sing.
~ Anya Seton
you're in my blood, in my bones, and in my heart there is naught but you.
~ Anya Seton
Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.
~ Arianne Cohen
We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.
~ Ariel Levy
MYRRHINE Why, you've no blanket. CINESIAS It's not the silly blanket's warmth but yours I want. MYRRHINE Never mind. You'll soon have both. I'll come straight back. CINESIAS The woman will choke me with her coverlets. MYRRHINE Get up a moment. CINESIAS I'm up high enough. MYRRHINE
~ Aristophanes
All we have to do is idly sit indoors With smooth roses powdered on our cheeks, Our bodies burning naked through the fold Of shining Amorgos' silk and meet the men With our dear Venus-plats plucked trim and neat. Their stirring love will rise up furiously, They'll beg our arms to open. That's our time! We'll disregard their knocking beat them off And they will soon be rabid for a Peace I'm sure of it.
~ Aristophanes
Ljubav je sastavljena od jedne duše koja naseljava dva tela.
~ Aristotle
Do you always make things up? Always. Why? Michael shrugged. 'I want to deceive him just enough to make him want me.' What's that from? Blanche DuBois. In Streetcar.
~ Armistead Maupin
France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.
~ Arnold Bennett
I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Norton tightened his arms around her. One of the nicest things about weightlessness, he often thought, was that you could really hold someone all night, without cutting off the circulation. There were those who claimed that love at one gee was so ponderous that they could no longer enjoy it.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,—all the stigmata of passion were there. But I was sadly conscious that up to now I had never found the secret of drawing it forth. However, come what might, I should have done with suspense and bring matters to a head tonight. She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a romance! cried Mrs. Forrester. An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal, and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mischief twinkled in his eyes. 'Okay' isn't even close. Kissing you is like a roller-coaster ride to outer space. The farther we go, the more I'm lost and the more I want to explore new territory
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Milord, Knight in Shining Armor, methinks thou hast a present in thy chamber.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yes, sweeting, I think you're incredibly sexy. And I would love nothing more than to take you back to my place and make your toes curl. -Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon