Quotes About Romance

Pourtant, certains disent que les amoureux sont fous.

Like a good many men, artists or not, Stone liked to go out with ravishing women who were some kind of crazy, but preferred to go home to somebody sane. With the possible exception of Pablo Picasso, this pattern of behavior is not sustainable for anyone in the long term.

Kiss and make up--but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

A man's kiss is his signature.

Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.

Love isn't a straight line. It's a roller coaster ride.

Without missing a beat, Brad pulled her close and Kate found herself at eye level with his shirt pocket.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

She wanted parties and hunts and young men swooning after her.

There are people out there who get annoyed at the story that Djuna barnes, rather than identify as a lesbian, preferred to say that she 'just loved Thelma.' Gertrude Stein reputedly made similar claims, albeit not in those exact terms, about Alice. I get why it's politically maddening, but I've also always thought it a little romantic—the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.

During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I've so obviously gotten everything I'd ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

Goethe describes blue as lively color, but one devoid of gladness. "It may be said to disturb rather than enliven.". Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionallu incapable of loving you back?

We were dancing the way people dance when they are telling each other how they want to make love.

the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.

two Christian princesses who were pursued by undesirable pagan lovers—lovers who professed to be unable to live without their beloveds' beautiful blue eyes. To rid herself of the unwanted attention, Medana supposedly plucked her eyes out and threw them at her suitor's feet; Triduana was slightly more inventive, and tore hers out with a thorn, then sent them to her suitor on a skewer.

and when I first saw him I thought I might dissolve, like sugar in water.

For a long moment they gazed at each other, and Freddy felt her mouth go dry and her heartbeat accelerate. If the evening ended right now, she would still remember this moment for all her days. The music, the perfume of the flower baskets, and the hard look of desire in Dal's eyes.