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Quotes About Romance

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
~ Emily Blunt
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty.
~ bailey philip james ii
Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
~ bailey philip james iii
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane
~ Balzac
Être aimé d'elle, ou mourir.
~ Balzac
Infuse with passion, then, if you will, this friendship, and let the voice of love disturb its calm.
~ balzac honore de iii
In the eyes of many Parisian women, Felix, a sort of hero of romance, owed much of his success to the evil that was said of him.
~ balzac honore de v
The caresses over which love presides are always pure.
~ balzac honore de v
In a lover the coarsest desire always shows itself as a burst of honest admiration.
~ balzac honore de vi
When a woman utters the name of a man but twice a day, there is perhaps some uncertainty about her feelings toward him—but if thrice?—Oh! oh!
~ balzac honore de x
A woman's life begins with her first passion.
~ balzac honore de xii
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
~ balzac honore de xiii
Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking at me; my eyes were drawn, as by a magnet, to two wells of fire, gleaming like carbuncles in a dim corner of the orchestra. Henarez never moved his eyes from me. The wretch had discovered the one spot from which he could see me—and there he was. I don't know what he may be as a politician, but for love he has a genius.
~ balzac honore de xix
Anything may be expected and anything may be supposed of a woman who is in love.
~ balzac honore de xv
The lover submits to all the caprices of a woman; and as a man is never vile while he lies in the arms of his mistress, he will take the means to please her that a husband would recoil from.
~ balzac honore de xvi
Between two beings susceptible of love, the duration of passion is in proportion to the original resistance of the woman, or to the obstacles which the accidents of social life put in the way of your happiness.
~ balzac honore de xvii
We will not attempt to enumerate the women who are virtuous from stupidity, for it is acknowledged that in love all women have intellect.
~ balzac honore de xvii
It is with kisses as with confidences, the first leads to another. They are multiplied, they interrupt conversation, they take its place; they scarce leave time for a sigh to escape.
~ balzac honore de xxi
Love is the most melodious of all harmonies.
~ balzac honore de xxi
Let us leave hearts out of the question. Business is business, and business is not carried on with sentimentality like romances.
~ balzac honore de xxiv
I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Shintani-kun often brought a book to read while he waited, but he'd close it as soon as his food arrived. I liked that too. As well as the way he always said Itadaki-masu, quietly, before he started eating. Maybe I was already in love.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
When I've fallen in love before, I've always tried to run it down and tackle it, but with him it would be different. The conversation we just had was like a glimpse of stars through a chink in a cloudy sky—perhaps, over time, talks like this would lead to love.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.
~ Banana Yoshimoto