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Quotes About Romance

Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf
~ Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
~ concupiscencia
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Ah! Those silly songs make us lose our heads; and, believe me, never marry a woman who sings in the country, especially if she sings the song of Musette!
~ Guy de Maupassant
She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in love with her, as a man always falls in love with any attractive woman whom he sees a lot of.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Iat?, la urma urmei, singurul lucru bun în via??: iubirea.S? È›ii în braÈ›e o femeie îndr?git?.Asta e marginea fericirii omeneÈ™ti!
~ Guy de Maupassant
The words of love, which are always the same, take the taste of the lips they come from.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Una donna giovane e affascinante un giorno sostenne, parlando con me non ricordo a quale proposito, che i colpi di luna sono mille volte più pericolosi dei colpi di sole. Li si prende, diceva, senza accorgersene, passeggiando nelle belle serate è non si guarisce mai; si resta pazzi, non pazzi furiosi, pazzi da rinchiudere, ma pazzi di una speciale follia, dolce e continua; non si pensa più come gli altri uomini.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Nincs annál nagyobb boldogság, mint amikor két kéz elÅ'ször szorítja meg egymást; amikor az egyik azt kérdezi: szeretsz? S a másik azt feleli: igen, szeretlek.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Build an entire city in order to make love there with only one girl for few days.
~ Guy Debord
Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
~ H. L. Mencken
O amor é a ilusão de que uma mulher difere da outra
~ H. L. Mencken
Não importa o quanto uma mulher seja feliz no casamento. Sempre lhe agradará saber que há um sujeito simpatico e atraente desejando que ela não fosse
~ H. L. Mencken
Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Fegurðin og mannlífið eru tveir elskendur sem fá ekki að hittast.
~ Halldór Kiljan Laxness
I love you better than all in the world besides, dear little Snow-white, and you must come with me to my father's castle and be my wife.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
If you want to know a man, see how he is in love.
~ Hanif Kureishi
You have become my thinking's single thought, My heart's first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining. These were lovely stories.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
She wore a killer smile, absolutely devastating. It was a smile that could twist a man's heart. A man could fall in love just being on the receiving end of that smile. A man would want to see the smile every day and be the one who could make it appear. He would want it all to himself.
~ Harlan Coben
A Spoon swoon, if you will.
~ Harlan Coben
When I looked into her eyes, I could see forever
~ Harlan Coben
Or maybe it's a ploy to get more sex." She gave him a look that curled his chopsticks. "Maybe it's working," she said. "Maybe I'll slip into something more comfortable," he said. "Not that Batman mask again." "Aw, c'mon, you can wear the utility belt." She thought about it. "Okay, but no stopping in the middle and shouting, 'Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.' 
~ Harlan Coben