Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.”

— John Green

202. “I can’t imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

— Julia Quinn

203. “It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

204. “To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”

— Shannon L. Alder

205. “It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”

— Nicholas Sparks

206. “Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that’s what’s really important.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

207. “But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

— David Levithan

208. “Does loving someone mean you want them to be safe? Or that you want them to be able to choose?”

— Ally Condie

209. “Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.”

— Marlin K. Jensen

210. “How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”

— Jill Shalvis

211. “I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.”

— Wendy Higgins

212. “My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.”

— Daisy Ashford

213. “By you, I am forever undone.”

— Holly Black

214. “Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

215. “Karena mencintainya... sama seperti warna merah.”

— Fhily Anastasya

216. “The greatest romance is with the Infinite.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

217. “I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.”

— Gary Oldman

218. “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”

— Oscar Wilde

219. “Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.”

— Henry Watson Fowler

220. “Wine is so much more than a beverage. It’s a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show.”

— Francis Ford Coppola

221. “I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.”

— Robert James Waller

222. “Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

— Nicholas Sparks

223. “There’s no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it’s hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

— Jenny Han

224. “I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.”

— Fannie Flagg

225. “There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.”

— Meher Baba

226. “Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.”

— Alice Hoffman

227. “I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

228. “Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”

— Virginia Woolf

229. “I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”

— David Levithan

230. “A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”

— Cassandra Clare

231. “Goodness had nothing to do with it.”

— Mae West

232. “Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.”

— Ernest Hemingway

233. “Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.”

— Zig Ziglar

234. “Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

— Margaret Atwood

235. “Christianity – An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.”

— Frederick the Great

236. “I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time – I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”

— Charlotte Brontë

237. “Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

— Milan Kundera

238. “Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.”

— William Wordsworth

239. “I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours – that will always remain and never be eroded by television.”

— Cillian Murphy

240. “A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

— Arthur Miller

241. “He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”

— E. Lockhart

242. “Don’t kiss me like a woman if you’re going to treat me like a child.”

— Jeaniene Frost

243. “Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.”

— Sherry Argov

244. “I liked you the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the floor surrounded by books, and you looked up when I opened the door and smiled right at me. It felt like you had been waiting for me, like you were welcoming me home.”

— Josh Lanyon

245. “Do you remember the first time we made love?” He touched his lips to hers as he said it. “We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn’t keep our hands off each other, couldn’t get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do.” He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. “It’s never going to change.”

— J.D. Robb

246. “Sometimes you know you’ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn’t so messed up, it wouldn’t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn’t.”

— Nick Hornby

247. “Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

— Tessa Dare

248. “She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

— Nicholas Sparks

249. “And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.”

— Colleen Houck

250. “After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them – not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

— Arthur C. Clarke