Quotes About Romance

And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt, as I supposed Mlle Swann to have done, and that we should think that she can never be ours, sometimes, too, it is enough that she should look on us kindly, as Mme de Guermantes was doing, and that we should think of her as almost ours already.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

the kiss, the bodily surrender which would seem natural and but moderately attractive...

It is a mistake," Labruyère tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune.

It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one.

And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.

Swann had, as he shook the Marquise's hand, seen her bosom from close to and from above, he plunged an attentive, serious, absorbed, almost anxious, gaze into the depths of her corsage, and his nostrils, intoxicated by the woman's perfume, quivered like a butterfly ready to go and settle on the half-glimpsed flower.

The young woman's smiling lips met his caresses halfway, and her eyes shone in their depths like pools warmed by the sun.

so beautiful that he could not refrain from moving his lips towards her...

Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.

Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed

All men are fools when it comes to love,' the doctor murmured.

Don't get your honey where you get your money

I'll have a rose in my teeth," he said. "And a gold badge.

Would it be an ideologue or a lover?

Total Eclipse of the Heart

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with," I said. "Don't ask me why. It just works that way.

For breezes remind me of kisses. And kisses can be eternal.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

If you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you. […] If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.

Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.