Top 500 Romance Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Believe me, I’m no romantic, and while I’ve heard all about love at first sight, I’ve never believed in it, and I still don’t. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.”

— Nicholas Sparks

352. “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

— Milan Kundera

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

— Hector Hugh Munro

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

— David Guterson

355. “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

356. “She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jaejoong

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

— Kirsty Moseley

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

— Simone Elkeles

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

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

— May Sarton

364. “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

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

— Oscar Wilde

366. “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

367. “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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Paula Deen

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

— Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

371. “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

372. “You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Sarah Turnbull

374. “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

375. “Romance is a different word than sexual contact.”

— Bill Cosby

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

— Maya Banks

377. “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

378. “Gentle he would be, denied he would not.”

— Diana Gabaldon

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

— John Keats

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

— George Jean Nathan

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

382. “Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.”

— John Steinbeck

383. “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

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

— Lana Del Rey

385. “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

386. “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

387. “All romances end at marriage.”

— Thomas Hardy

388. “Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.”

— Grantland Rice

389. “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

390. “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

391. “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

392. “See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.”

— Santosh Kalwar

393. “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

394. “This isn’t a romance. You’re not a damsel in distress and I’m not the handsome prince come to save you.”

— C.J. Roberts

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

— Helen Fielding

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

— Simone Elkeles

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

— Sylvia Day

398. “Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

— Louisa May Alcott

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

— Wallis Simpson