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Quotes About Romance

Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.
~ Gloria Steinem
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
~ Gloria Swanson
Love is meant to be an adventure!!
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I am satisfied that a happy marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. -Gordon B. Hinckley
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
~ Gordon Korman
For the love of God have mercy on my aching cock. I want you in bed." "That, sure lord, is where I want to be.
~ Gordon Merrick
If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.
~ Gordon Ramsay
I was in love with a beautiful blonde once — she drove me to drink — 'tis the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
~ W. C. Fields, 1941
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love...
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Enamoured pigeons coo upon the roof...
~ Alexander Smith
Romance novels: All of the passion, none of the herpes.
~ Internet meme, c.2016
I love you with every pizza my heart.
~ Internet meme
...a romantic attachment for chocolate-creams...
~ Grant Allen
Rated G is nobody gets the girl. PG is the good guy gets the girl. R is the bad guy gets the girl. XXX is everybody gets the girl.
~ Author Unknown
You are my favorite excuse to whip cream.
~ @AnonymousVoyeur, tweet, 2010
In four out of every five watches brought us to be regulated, repaired, or cleaned, we find some token. Sometimes it is a bit of ribbon or lock of hair, or a rose petal. But oftener it's a four-leaf clover. The four-leaf clover is a love-token always. It is by the maiden fair given to her lover, who tenderly stows it away in the back of his watch-case.
~ Jewelers' Weekly, 1887
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart!
~ Lord Byron
He was remarkably susceptible to music. It was like strong drink, firing him to audacities of feeling, - a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky. It banished sordid fact, flooded his mind with beauty, loosed romance and to its heels added wings.
~ Jack London
Aveva amato la poesia perché gli interessava la bellezza; ma da quando l'aveva incontrata gli si erano spalancate le porte sui territori sconfinati della poesia d'amore.
~ Jack London
of course she promptly loved him, or thought she did, which amounts to the same thing.
~ Jack London
She had never had any experiences of the heart. Her only experiences in such matters were of the books, where the facts of ordinary day were translated by fancy into a fairy realm of unreality;
~ Jack London
And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love, is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out on us if we'll only travel that far?" –Inscription in George Sterling's copy of The Road, March 26, 1914
~ Jack London
T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty.
~ Jack Vance
If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.
~ Jack Vance