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Quotes About Romance

Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
~ Wole Soyinka
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
~ Woodrow Wyatt
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
~ Woody Allen
Sex is like having dinner: sometimes you joke about the dishes, sometimes you take the meal seriously.
~ Woody Allen
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
~ Woody Allen
I was so touched by her that, after fifteen minutes, I wanted to marry her and, after half an hour, I completely gave up the idea of snatching her purse.
~ Woody Allen
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful — provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
~ Woody Allen
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.
~ Woody Allen
Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.
~ Woody Allen
Il sesso è sporco solo se fatto bene.
~ Woody Holton
La gente se enamora y no vomita, por eso se envenena.
~ Xavier Velasco
A solid family life, no romance, and I knew there would never be any.
~ Xiaolu Guo
She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?
~ David Nicholls
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
~ David Nicholls
He wonders if he still might tell her that he loves her or, more tentatively, that he 'thinks he might be in love with her', which is both more touching and easier to back out of.
~ David Nicholls
Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a while day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or T.S. Eliot or, God forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them?
~ David Nicholls
And is that what love looks like -- all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometimes it is.
~ David Nicholls
And is that what love looks like - all wet mouth sand your skirt rucked up?
~ David Nicholls
Él puso suavemente una mano en la nuca, a la vez que ella le ponía suavemente la suya en la cadera, y se dieron un beso en la calle, rodeados de gente con prisa por volver a casa, en la luz de verano; y sería, para ambos, el beso más dulce de su vida. Aquí empieza todo. Empieza todo aquí, hoy.
~ David Nicholls
Maybe they're in love." "And is that what love looks like - all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?" "Sometines it is.
~ David Nicholls
But saying yes would feel like caving in, and Emma knew from novels that you should never cave in to marriage.
~ David Nicholls
My mother changed the television channel every time two people kissed. Both had passed through the permissive 1960s untouched. It might as well have been the 1860s. How my sister and I ever came to be, I've frankly no idea.
~ David Nicholls
From one point of view, the Bible is the story of a romance, a heavenly Father seeking an earthly bride for his Son. Like every good romance, they 'get married and live happily ever after'. But this climax is only reached in the Book of Revelation, without which we would never know whether the engagement (or 'betrothal'; 2 Corinthians 11:2) ever came to anything or was broken off!
~ David Pawson
She is stood in the doorway in one of his T-shirts. She is beautiful.
~ David Peace