Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”

— Anita Desai

302. “Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I’d ever make.”

— Colleen Houck

303. “I’m an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

— Glen Cook

304. “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

305. “Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.”

— Theodor Reik

306. “She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.”

— Leslie Ludy

307. “It is no wonder lesbians love women.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

308. “I live with romance in my brain. I’m a true-blue Cancerian like that.”

— Priyanka Chopra

309. “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

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

— Jill Shalvis

311. “Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser.”

— Hailey Abbott

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

— Meher Baba

313. “There are flaws in romance but love is perfect.”

— Jaejoong

314. “You are my heart as it beats within my chest, my soul as it moves through my mind. The breath in my body that so fascinates you is your essence pouring in and out of me in a wave that drowns me over and over again until I cannot breathe for wanting you. Needing you.”

— Jacquelyn Frank

315. “It’s just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself.”

— Nick Hornby

316. “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

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

— Richelle Mead

318. “I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I’d rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

— Lauren Oliver

319. “When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

320. “I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Nicholas Sparks

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

323. “Romance at short notice was her speciality.”

— Hector Hugh Munro

324. “People get stupid when they’re in love; people want what they can’t have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.”

— Claudia Gray

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

326. “I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.”

— Quentin Tarantino

327. “Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

328. “Saying you’re through with romance is like saying you’re done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

329. “Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.”

— Helen Fisher

330. “Memories were fine but you couldn’t touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.”

— Cecelia Ahern

331. “Everything changes except the love.”

— Santosh Kalwar

332. “The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.”

— Oscar Wilde

333. “Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Julia Quinn

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

— Abbi Glines

336. “Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.”

— Andy Warhol

337. “I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.”

— May Sarton

338. “She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years – barnyard sounds.”

— Simone Elkeles

339. “Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

— Tom Robbins

340. “Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens – for good or bad it simply happens. – Katrina Svensen.”

— Suzanne Selfors

341. “I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.”

— Lana Del Rey

342. “His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.”

— Darynda Jones

343. “A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.”

— P.T. Barnum

344. “On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We’re not dating and I’m not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.”

— Sandra Bullock

345. “O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel’s song!”

— John Keats

346. “You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?”

— Suzanne Collins

347. “It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

— Maya Banks

348. “What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.”

— Alex Flinn

349. “Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

350. “It’s always been you; it’ll always be you, Angel.”

— Kirsty Moseley