Top 500 Romance Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks – tales of erotic suffering.”

— Marina Warner

403. “Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”

— Alexandra Potter

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

— Diana Gabaldon

405. “You were on the other side of the world, but I often woke with the scent of you surrounding me. I ached for you, Kells. No matter how much Kishan thrashed me, it couldn’t diminish the pain of losing you. I’d dream of you and reach out to touch you, but you were always just out of reach.”

— Colleen Houck

406. “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

407. “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

408. “Staying far never breaks relation, staying near never builds relation. Its a link between hearts, which never allows us to forget each other. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.”

— Elinor Glyn

409. “She’d secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she’d fallen for him hard.”

— Rick Riordan

410. “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

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

— Grantland Rice

412. “You take romance – I’ll take Jell-O.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

413. “I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

414. “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

415. “Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

416. “I couldn’t escape him, now or ever. He’d always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn’t control, let alone escape.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

417. “You ride well, but you don’t kiss nicely at all.”

— Thomas Hardy

418. “Great. I’d been dumped in Hell’s waiting room.”

— Karen Chance

419. “It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.”

— Terry Kay

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

— Santosh Kalwar

421. “The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”

— Jean Paul

422. “The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.”

— Hugh Howey

423. “Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.”

— Sophie Kinsella

424. “There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.”

— Alexander McQueen

425. “I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

— Philippa Gregory

426. “Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart.”

— L.J. Smith

427. “You don’t take away my choices. You are my choice.”

— Colleen Houck

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

— Bill Cosby

429. “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

— Milan Kundera

430. “We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”

— Charlaine Harris

431. “I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”

— Jeanette Winterson

432. “Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.”

— Melissa Pritchard

433. “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”

— W.H. Auden

434. “All romances end at marriage.”

— Thomas Hardy

435. “For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

— Jodi Picoult

436. “A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

— Elizabeth Bowen

437. “In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.”

— Elizabeth Ashley

438. “Anne “felt instinctively” that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”

— L.M. Montgomery

439. “Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!”

— James Scott Bell

440. “Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

441. “I don’t care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.”

— Amanda Hocking

442. “I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.”

— Drew Barrymore

443. “Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”

— Salvador Plascencia

444. “There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.”

— Richard Paul Evans

445. “The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.”

— Virginia Woolf

446. “I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love ‘Tender is the Night,’ and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.”

— David Nicholls

447. “History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.”

— Horace Walpole

448. “You keep runnin that mouth and I’m goin to take you back there and screw you.”

— Cormac McCarthy

449. “Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.”

— Roger Ebert

450. “Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”

— John Greenleaf Whittier