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Romantic Quotes

What would you do if given a few precious moments with the one person who makes you feel alive; that beloved who can simply swipe away a dark cloud of despair? Perhaps you would hold hands and sit atop a grand mountain, or look into each other's eyes to find a promising future. And if you're of the more tender-hearted kind, maybe you would recite a few lines from a Pablo Neruda poem or relive a scene from a Jane Austen novel. Love and romance have always made up an integral part of our lives. At the end of a tiring day, all you want to do is come back to the one you yearn for. Most often the sole intention in life is to keep the flame in our relationships alive. It is love that wards off all scope of depression and loneliness, thus becoming the reason why we cherish this sentiment above most others. Love brings us face-to-face with unprecedented experience irrespective of age and when someone puts this inexplicable feeling in black and white, they constitute what we can call 'love-writ'. And so, we bring to you a plethora of romantic quotes from the pages of literary works, the unfathomable depths of history, unforgettable movies and the lives of real people, amongst many more.

Marilyn Monroe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Ben Affleck

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Thomas More

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Walter Scott

Love rules the court, The camp, the grove, And men below, and the saints above, For love is heaven and heaven is love.

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Edward VIII

A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.

Pierce Brosnan

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Sean Penn

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

Rosario Dawson

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

Jack White

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

James Russell Lowell

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

World Action
John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Thora Birch

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

Betty White

I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.

Meg Ryan

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Katharine McPhee

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

Thomas More

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Kristen Stewart

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

William Butler Yeats

How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

Paul Hollywood

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Saoirse Ronan

'Romeo And Juliet' is the classic love story. When two lovers are separated and trying to get back to one another, that's fiercely romantic and something you become glued to.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Hugh Grant

I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

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Morgan Freeman

I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Evan Peters

I would love to do a romantic comedy.

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Jennifer Lopez

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

Christian Bale

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Sam Elliott

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Lonliness
Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

John Cusack

I think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

John Belushi

I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that is totally different from 'The Blues Brothers.' I'm a comic actor, but I'm an actor, too.

Frida Kahlo

I love you more than my own skin.

Salvador Dali

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Helen Rowland

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her--when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

Kate Beckinsale

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Sanjay Dutt

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

Johnny Depp

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.

Kristen Bell

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

Sarah Jessica Parker

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Orlando Bloom

I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

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Charlie Chaplin

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type. Honestly, I did not get into a lot of bar brawls - but I was always willing to. About the only thing missing from my story is that I haven't had a full knock-down fight in the middle of the Polo Lounge.

Alison Brie

I'm really not a TV junkie... OK, I kind of am a TV junkie, but I'm much more of a movie junkie - my junk food is romantic comedies I've seen a million times.

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

Billy Graham

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Preity Zinta

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.

Matt Bomer

I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

Maya Angelou

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Steve Carell

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Vanessa Hudgens

I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

Walt Whitman

When I give I give myself.

T. S. Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words.

Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.

Kate Hudson

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out.

Anna Faris

I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of romance in them.

Anne Frank

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love.

Love Lonliness

I don't believe in having one partner for your whole life, but I hope I get married. I want to have a husband and two kids and a nice little life baking pies. I'm quite romantic. It's definitely important to have someone make you feel special.

Sylvester Stallone

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Stephen King

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Mae West

A man's kiss is his signature.

Morgan Freeman

I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it.

Elizabeth Olsen

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

Natalie Portman

I don't know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Some nights, a romantic dinner can be killed by having to do dishes afterward, so it probably suits you better to go out for dinner. But I love cooking and always have.

Mindy Kaling

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Armie Hammer

I try to do romantic gestures all the time.

Mindy Kaling

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Woody Harrelson

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

Halle Berry

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Rhea Chakraborty

For me Salman's the most romantic and the best action hero there ever could be. I'm so attracted and mesmerized by him! For me he's the ultimate superstar, I can just watch him for hours.

Drew Barrymore

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.

Gordon Ramsay

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

William Blake

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Uma Thurman

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

Khalil Gibran

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.