Top 500 Romance Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Neil Peart

257. “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

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

— Sherry Argov

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

260. “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

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

— Gayle Forman

262. “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

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Roman Payne

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Christopher Paolini

268. “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

269. “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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

272. “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

273. “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

274. “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

275. “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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Gary Chapman

279. “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

280. “Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

— Edmond Rostand

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

— Sarah J. Maas

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

— Jill Shalvis

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Christina Dodd

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

— Leslie Ludy

288. “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

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

— Helen Fisher

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

— Nicholas Sparks

291. “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

292. “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

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

— Jenny Han

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

— Antoine Fuqua

295. “She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

296. “Three years? That’s a thousand tomorrows, ma’am.”

— Karen Kingsbury

297. “There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance.”

— Tony Scott

298. “The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.”

— Alan Kay

299. “We all romanticize the people we adore.”

— John Green

300. “You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

— Richelle Mead