Quotes About Romance

I dreamed my lips would drift down your back like a skiff on a river. I'd follow a vein with the point of my finger, hold your bare feet in my naked hands.

It's usually some badass makes a young girl's heart beat faster.

We had been given flowers, good food, and a soft bed, all in exchange for declaring our love. I thought we might go from town to town and marry in each one.

both remembered how it all started, and even now, in the middle of my middle age, when I think of that shining young girl, I still feel a little thrill of first love, still there, still burning like a pilot light.

In The Sound of Music, when Captain Von Trapp and Maria reveal their love for each other, what does Maria say? "Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could." We don't normally think of philosophical principles as romantic, but Maria was here expressing a fundamental principle of classical metaphysics.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

She looked like a woman you might jump a few lights to get home to.

The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

I figure that unless you are in the business of politics, covering it or columnizing about it, politics should take up maybe a tenth corner of a good citizen's mind. The rest should be philosophy, friendship, romance, family, culture and fun. I wish our talk-show culture reflected that balance, and that the emotional register around politics were more in keeping with its low but steady nature.

They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.

To fall in love successfully, you don't want too much self-awareness.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Could it be that they were sick enough at this point of their own lives to get worked up about those of others? That's always the case. We live under the dictates of others' desires. Natalie and François didn't want to become a TV series for their crowd. For the moment, they loved the idea of being two people alone in the world, in the most perfect cliché of romantic schmaltzy serenity.

Ils s'échappèrent comme deux voleurs de beauté.

Le sentiment amoureux est le sentiment le plus culpabilisant.

Hay quien dice que un flechazo consiste en reconocer un sentimiento que ya llevábamos dentro