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Quotes About Romance

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.
~ Robert Penn Warren
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!
~ Rumi
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
~ Sammy Hagar
You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.
~ Selena Gomez
I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.
~ Tom Jones
A girl doesn't notice unfairness until she falls in love
~ Yoshiki Nakamura
All the world loves a lover, and a lover loves all the world.
~ Anthony Storr
I love. I have loved. I will love.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
~ Cary Fukunaga
Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
~ Charles Baudelaire
That's when Steve bent down and kissed her.
~ Maureen Johnson
Nate poked her with the toe of his sneaker. "This is a David thing," he said. "Obviously." She did not reply. "Romance seems fun," he added. "Don't." "I'm not.
~ Maureen Johnson
Gaenor and Paul, her year twelve boyfriend, known to make out while eating shepherd's pie, which is not a euphemism.
~ Maureen Johnson
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
~ Mavis Gallant
Is there, he asked with a bitter smile, any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?" Nobody held up a hand. As I feared, said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when she is not preferred to all other women.
~ Max Beerbohm
For a whole month, the whole demi-monde was forgotten for one English virgin. Never, even in Paris, had a woman triumphed so.
~ Max Beerbohm
He realised that to die for love of this lady would be no mere measure of precaution, or counsel of despair. It would be in itself a passionate indulgence—a fiery rapture, not to be foregone.
~ Max Beerbohm
She turned quickly to face him, and with one part of his mind he thought, They call it falling in love, admiring as always the wisdom of the language. Not stumbling in love, not walking, striding, jumping, bouncing, crawling in love. You fall in love, straight forward like a chopped tree, straight down like a rock from a cliff: gravity, earth, concussion.
~ Max Byrd
Über Liebe, als Beziehung zwischen den Geschlechtern gebe es nichts Neues mehr zu berichten, das habe die Literatur dargestellt in allen Varianten ein für allemal, das sei für die Literatur, sofern sie diesen Namen verdient, kein Thema mehr - solche Verlautbarungen sind zu lesen; sie verkennen, daß das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern sich ändert, daß andere Liebesgeschichten stattfinden werden.
~ Max Frisch
We talked about constellations—the usual thing, when two people haven't yet discovered which one knows less about the stars than the other; the rest is romantic fantasy, which I can't bear.
~ Max Frisch
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
~ Maya Angelou
I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
~ Maya Angelou
Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.
~ Maya Angelou
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening
~ Maya Angelou