Romantic Quotes

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

Good, Night, Sweet

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde

Others, Deceiving, Romance

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

Real, Last, Means

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

Lonely, Adventure, Gentleman

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

Love, Someone, Reality

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

Hurt, Alive, Sensitive

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
Emily Dickinson

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
John Keats

Truth, Heart, Nothing

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Truth, Die

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Women, Men, Often

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hope, Person, Last

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King

Language, Romance, Dirt

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Love, Marriage, Truth

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois

Love, Humanity, Two

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley

Love, Calm, Romance

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Long

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
Freddy Fender

Love, Time, Hurt

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

Politics, Time, Else

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf

Short, Serious, Romance

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.
Joan Chen

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

Life, Love, Great

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.
Julie Delpy

Women, Single, Afraid

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
Kristen Stewart

Long, Honest, Romance

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks

Thinking, Else, Romance

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez

Love, Birthday, Time

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