Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.
—Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–99) French Inventor, Diplomat, Musician, Revolutionary
Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as “Lover’s Lane.”
—Unknown
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
—Catherine II of Russia (1729–96) Russian Empress
Romance like donut. Everybody hungry for donut. Everybody hungry for Romance. But when romance over, you not feel so good, maybe vomit. Same with donut.
—Indian Proverb
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
—Anthony Hopkins (b.1937) Welsh-born American Film, Stage Actor
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel’s song!
—John Keats (1795–1821) English Poet
Love is an act of faith.
—Erich Fromm (1900–80) German-American Psychoanalyst, Social Philosopher
We loved with a love that was more than love.
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) American Poet
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.
—Joni Mitchell (b.1943) Canadian Singer, Songwriter
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
—Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
—Teresa of Avila (1515–82) Spanish Carmelite Nun, Mystic
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
—Henry Drummond
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
—Kate Millet (1934–2017) American Feminist, Writer, Sculptor
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
To wait an Hour-is long-
If Love be just beyond-
To wait Eternity-is short-
If Love reward the end.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.
—Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) English Courtier, Navigator, Poet
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
—George William Curtis (1824–92) American Writer, Editor, Orator
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
—Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish Writer
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.
—Unknown
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
To most men any romance which runs beyond the limits of an episode becomes a nuisance.
—Unknown
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950) American Journalist, Humorist
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.
—Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933–2024) British-American Novelist, Best-selling Storyteller
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Critic
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