Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.”

— Suzanne Collins

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

— Sarah Mayberry

254. “It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.”

— J.K. Rowling

255. “Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Pamela Clare

257. “I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it – and it’s still I love you – love you – love you – my Sweetheart.”

— Zelda Fitzgerald

258. “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

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

— Neil Peart

260. “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

261. “Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical. But it’s out of step with the current media culture.”

— Bob Dylan

262. “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

263. “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

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

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

265. “Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

266. “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

267. “They say money talks, but all mine ever says is ’good-bye sucker.’”

— Jill Shalvis

268. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

270. “No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don’t become cynical or ‘unsentimental’ unless there’s a core of romanticism or sentiment that’s had a few chips nicked into it.”

— Nora Ephron

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

272. “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

273. “Con el tiempo uno se acostumbra a todo.”

— Nicholas Sparks

274. “How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn’t want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he have liked me.”

— Ruta Sepetys

275. “We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

276. “I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can’t possibly carry all that we want it to.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Roman Payne

278. “I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”

— Sarah J. Maas

279. “Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.”

— Antoine Fuqua

280. “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

281. “There isn’t a doubt in my mind that we could be perfect for each others life, Sydney. It’s our lives that aren’t perfect for us.”

— Colleen Hoover

282. “Thou art to me a delicious torment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

283. “I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind – mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.”

— Christopher Paolini

284. “We’re smitten with technology. And we’re afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it’s time to talk.”

— Sherry Turkle

285. “Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.”

— Oscar Wilde

286. “Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

— Edmond Rostand

287. “People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.”

— Gary Chapman

288. “We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.”

— Jane Austen

289. “I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

— John Steinbeck

290. “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

291. “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

292. “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”

— Jane Austen

293. “Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”

— Christina Dodd

294. “Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.”

— Abbi Glines

295. “Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid brick down, you ain’t never gonna have a house baby, and it’s cold outside.”

— Greg Behrendt

296. “The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.”

— Leslie Ludy

297. “Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.”

— Charles Burnett

298. “Barriers tend to intensify romance. It’s called the ‘Romeo and Juliet effect.’ I call it ‘frustration attraction.’”

— Helen Fisher

299. “Do you think there’s a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?”

— Jenny Han

300. “Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure – not even memory.”

— Erich Maria Remarque