Romantic Quotes

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

~ Ashton Kutcher

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

~ Cherie Lunghi

Long walks on the beach are the supposed holy grail of a romantic evening. The beach becomes a kind of utopia - the place where all our dreams come true.

~ Roxane Gay

I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

~ Lance Bass

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

~ Mariella Frostrup

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

~ Marya Mannes

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

~ Stevie Nicks

People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

~ Gary Oldman

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

~ Matt Dillon

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

~ Walter Dean Myers

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

~ Jon Krakauer

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

~ John Green

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

~ John Keats

True love stories never have endings.

~ Richard Bach

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

~ William Blake

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

~ Katharine Lee Bates

I love you more than my own skin.

~ Frida Kahlo

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

~ Alain De Botton

Love is friendship set on fire.

~ Jeremy Taylor

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

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

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

~ Khalil Gibran

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

~ Alan Furst

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

~ Stendhal

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

~ Victor Hugo

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

~ Jennifer Lopez

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

~ Halle Berry

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

~ Christopher Marlowe

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

~ André Maurois

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.

~ Thomas Moore

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

~ Hesiod

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.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool.

~ Christopher Egan

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.

~ Marilyn Monroe

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

~ Tom Hanks

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

~ Ang Lee

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

~ Henry Hopper

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

~ Katharine Mcphee