Top 500 Romance Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love ‘Tender is the Night,’ and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.”

— David Nicholls

452. “Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier

453. “She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn’t so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”

— Jean M. Auel

454. “Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.”

— Melissa Pritchard

455. “I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.”

— Sara Gruen

456. “My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.”

— Deborah Harkness

457. “In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.”

— Elizabeth Ashley

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

— Virginia Woolf

459. “Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!”

— James Scott Bell

460. “Without coffee, how would romance wake up in the morning?”

— Anthony T. Hincks

461. “Anne “felt instinctively” that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”

— L.M. Montgomery

462. “Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.”

— Criss Jami

463. “Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

464. “Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

465. “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

466. “Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.”

— Ashton Kutcher

467. “Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”

— P.C. Cast

468. “I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.”

— Drew Barrymore

469. “There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.”

— Richard Paul Evans

470. “Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.”

— Vikram Seth

471. “You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.”

— Debra Anastasia

472. “I’ve always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn’t have to represent us – the kids that wore black – back then.”

— Gerard Way

473. “I don’t care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.”

— Amanda Hocking

474. “He felt like home.”

— JoAnne Kenrick

475. “This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”

— Victor Hugo

476. “Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.”

— John Ciardi

477. “I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

478. “A relationship to me is never about the romance.”

— Shia LaBeouf

479. “I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.”

— Britt Robertson

480. “There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

— Cecelia Ahern

481. “I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.”

— Eminem

482. “That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.”

— Ville Valo

483. “I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be – instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

484. “Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.”

— Kim Harrison

485. “He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.”

— Thomas Mann

486. “Someone once told me love isn’t perfect – or predictable.”

— Lauren Morrill

487. “I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.”

— Virginia Woolf

488. “I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.”

— Christine Feehan

489. “Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”

— Jayne Ann Krentz

490. “I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.”

— Alice Munro

491. “As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.”

— Patrick Stewart

492. “His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

493. “I’m drawn to bad romances.”

— Lady Gaga

494. “How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?”

— William James

495. “Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment.”

— Thomas Kinkade

496. “Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.”

— Nicole Williams

497. “Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”

— Graham Greene

498. “He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he’d become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”

— Cheryl Strayed

499. “I’m not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”

— Jodi LaPalm

500. “Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance – And must I lose a soul’s inheritance?”

— Oscar Wilde