Quotes About Romance

Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swearThat tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,And call upon my soul within the house.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers.

Out-paramoured the Turk.

Come unto these yellow sands,And then take hands:Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd—The wild waves whist,—Foot it featly here and there.

Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.

Except I be by Silvia in the night,There is no music in the nightingale.

Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.

This is the very ecstasy of love.

O! what a war of looks was then between them.

The kiss you take is better than you give.

Begin at Act II, Scene 2, line 242: Royal wench, she did lay great Caesar's sword to bed--he plowed her and she cropt.

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

The course of true love was never easy.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Love is a beautiful dream.

The poet's darling.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

For your own sake you should give her a new gown; for variety of dresses rouses desire, and makes an old mistress seem every day a new one.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.