Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

352. “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

353. “Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.”

— George E. Woodberry

354. “You think I wanted to fall for you? I stayed away from you! I gave him the chance to be with you! But there’s another part of me that asks what if? What if you’re not supposed to be with Ren? What if you were supposed to be the answer to my prayers? Not his!”

— Colleen Houck

355. “In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we’re not consciously looking for it.”

— Kathleen Quinlan

356. “Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

— Oscar Wilde

357. “That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!”

— Thomas Hardy

358. “Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”

— George Jean Nathan

359. “The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?”

— Stewart O'Nan

360. “We’re almost there, Oliver said. Once again Petunia was so startled that she tripped and would have fallen is Oliver hadn’t caught her around the waist and pulled her upright. “You must have been far away,” he said laughing.”

— Jessica Day George

361. “I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that’s what I’ll continue to do.”

— Simone Elkeles

362. “He’s like a drug for you, Bella.”

— Stephenie Meyer

363. “I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”

— Amanda Grace

364. “John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!”

— Louisa May Alcott

365. “I believe love – and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It’s something I’m not willing to share with the public.”

— George Harrison

366. “If you don’t open up, we’re going to lose each other down the road.”

— Sylvia Day

367. “Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.”

— Anita Brookner

368. “Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that’s what’s really important.”

— Jake Gyllenhaal

369. “The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I’m not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.”

— Dev Patel

370. “Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss.”

— Helen Fielding

371. “I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.”

— Liam Neeson

372. “Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.”

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

373. “Every romance does not lead to sex.”

— Bill Cosby

374. “Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.”

— Paula Deen

375. “Ever since I’ve met you, I’ve swept you off my feet.”

— Morrie Ryskind

376. “We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I’ve had in my life has been wrong.”

— Gayle Forman

377. “The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.”

— E. M. Forster

378. “Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.”

— Kerstin Gier

379. “We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.”

— Margaret Atwood

380. “Love expands your soul with something inexplicably fulfilling. If you die without ever having experienced it, you will miss life’s only true joy.”

— Adele Ashworth

381. “When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don’t want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.”

— Fran Lebowitz

382. “One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we’re just friends.”

— Charlie Huston

383. “More important than having a romance with the object that I’m drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.”

— Jim Dine

384. “Just because lips have met doesn’t mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn’t mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.”

— Joshua Harris

385. “Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.”

— Groucho Marx

386. “No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.”

— Daphne du Maurier

387. “To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand.”

— Shannon L. Alder

388. “French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.”

— Sarah Turnbull

389. “Sometimes when I’m alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.”

— Suzanne Collins

390. “There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.”

— David Guterson

391. “You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.”

— Wallis Simpson

392. “I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.”

— Colleen Houck

393. “Say it, America. Please. Tell me you love me, that you want to be mine alone.”

— Kiera Cass

394. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

— David Gemmell

395. “I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that’s a great combination.”

— Ralph Lauren

396. “It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”

— Nicholas Sparks

397. “The most temptation I’d experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate’s spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.”

— Karen Chance

398. “Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.”

— Washington Irving

399. “It’s easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It’s fun to get lost in love and romance. It’s the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.”

— Brittany Murphy

400. “I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”

— Elizabeth Scott