Romance Quotes - Page 2

• Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Romantic, Faith

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.141, Open Road Media

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Confidence

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Every great love starts with a great story.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Stories

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• Love is the whole and more than all.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Romantic, Whole

  1940 50 poems,'my father moved through dooms of love'.

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• Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Children, Kissing, Kiss Me

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• The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Science

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Feelings

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• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  George William Curtis

  Memories, Romantic Love, Touching

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• Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

  Bette Davis

  Romantic Love, Wave, Stage

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Eastwood says his convention appearance was 'mission accomplished'" by Paul Miller, www.pineconearchive.com. September 7, 2012.

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• 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  I Love You, Valentines Day, I Love Him

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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  Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Beauty

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• If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Passion

  'Wuthering Heights' (1847) ch. 9

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Flower, Heart, Vision

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1387, Dell

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• Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Life, Romantic

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

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• We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Proud, Would Be

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.297

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• The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.

  Meg Cabot

  I Love Him, Boys, One Day

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• You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

  Julia Quinn

  Happy Endings

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• The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, I Love Him, Romantic Love

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen on Love and Romance”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lovers, Eric Northman, Respectful

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.734, Penguin

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• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Breakup

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891). A very similar statement is found inWilde's playAWoman of No Importance, act 3 (1893).

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• There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Romantic, Love You, Forbidden Love

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sad, Men, Want

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