Top 500 Romance Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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

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

— Tessa Dare

254. “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

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

— Sarah Mayberry

256. “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

257. “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

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

— Pamela Clare

259. “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

260. “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

261. “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

262. “No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.”

— Lauren Bacall

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

— Neil Peart

264. “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

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

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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

— Gayle Forman

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

— Bob Dylan

268. “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

269. “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

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Sarah J. Maas

275. “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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Christina Dodd

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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280. “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

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

— Roman Payne

282. “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

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

— Antoine Fuqua

284. “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

285. “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

286. “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

287. “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

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

— Gary Chapman

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

— Christopher Paolini

290. “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

291. “Your neck. I want to kiss it.”

— Edmond Rostand

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

— Jane Austen

293. “I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— John Steinbeck

295. “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

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

— Abbi Glines

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

— Jane Austen

298. “Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Helen Fisher

300. “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