Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

203. “Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Robert James Waller

205. “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

206. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— E. Lockhart

209. “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

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

— Daisy Ashford

211. “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

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

— Margaret Atwood

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Gary Oldman

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

— William Wordsworth

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

— Cassandra Clare

218. “I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.”

— Ransom Riggs

219. “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

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

— Jeaniene Frost

221. “By you, I am forever undone.”

— Holly Black

222. “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

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. “She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.”

— Sarah Mayberry

225. “Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.”

— Levon Aronian

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Oscar Wilde

229. “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

230. “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

231. “Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’”

— Ashton Kutcher

232. “If you die, angel, it means I’m already dead.”

— Pamela Clare

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

— Mae West

234. “There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”

— Kate Chopin

235. “No. No, I don’t believe you’d betray me with her. I don’t believe you’d cheat on me. But I’m afraid, and I’m sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

— J.D. Robb

236. “Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.”

— Neil Peart

237. “You had this all planned, didn’t you?? I accused. ‘Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?’ It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.”

— Kim Harrison

238. “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

239. “My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.”

— Michael Scott

240. “War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.”

— George Bernard Shaw

241. “I found something! Courage – just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

242. “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”

— Criss Jami

243. “I want a man who’s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?”

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

— Fhily Anastasya

245. “Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

— Roman Payne

246. “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

247. “We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.”

— Gayle Forman

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

— Sherry Argov

249. “Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I’m involved with one woman, I’m involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.”

— Burt Reynolds

250. “That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”

— Andrea Gibson