Romantic Love Quotes - Page 13

• We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Kissing, Night

  Pablo Neruda, “Drunk As Drunk”

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• What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.

  Margaret Mead

  Husband, Children, Giving

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

  George Hewitt Myers

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

  Euripides

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Desire, Paradox

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

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• One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

  Diane Ackerman

  Powerful, Desire, Beloved

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.95, Vintage

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• It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

  Glenway Wescott

  Love, Blind, Love You

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• I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Kissing, Lips, Passionate Kiss

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

  John McGahern

  Romantic, Reading, Writing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Romantic, Summer, Sunshine

  Song: Symptom Of The Universe

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• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Hurt, Shells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Happiness, Games, Mistress

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• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Cinema, Normal, Classic

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Happiness, Sadness

  Anita Brookner (1987). “A friend from England”, Pantheon

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• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  Rachel Bilson

  Drama, Comedy

  "Rachel Bilson: Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 3, 2011.

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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

  Romance, Wave, Stage

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

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• The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

  Ewan MacColl

  Romantic, Stars, Eye

  "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (song) (1962)

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• Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

  James Taylor

  Romantic, Heart, Sculpture

  Song: Someone, Album: One Man Dog

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• In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

  Joseph Barbera

  Romantic, Fighting, Boxing

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• It was the most romantic plane ever made.

  Ken Follett

  Romantic, Made, Planes

  Ken Follett (2011). “Night Over Water”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

  Matthew Lillard

  Romantic, America, Office

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• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  Michael Zaslow

  Romantic, Lonely, Mean

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• You're my special angel, sent from up above. The Lord smiled down on me, and sent an angel to love.

  Bobby Helms

  Romantic, Angel, Special

  Song: My Special Angel, 1957

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