1. Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde
2. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe
3. If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson
4. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. - Henry Rollins
5. The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. - Marya Mannes
6. In short I will part with anything for you but you. - Mary Wortley Montagu
7. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde
8. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. - Maya Angelou
9. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. - Virginia Woolf
10. 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
11. When I give I give myself. - Walt Whitman
12. And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - Khalil Gibran
13. Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. - Emily Dickinson
14. So the lover must struggle for words. - T. S. Eliot
15. A man's kiss is his signature. - Mae West
16. 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
17. The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. - Billy Graham
18. How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. - William Butler Yeats
19. I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. - William Blake
20. I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. - D. H. Lawrence
22. French is the language that turns dirt into romance. - Stephen King
23. There is no instinct like that of the heart. - Lord Byron
24. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. - John Keats
25. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats
26. I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. - John Keats
27. There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. - Jane Austen
28. I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. - Tom Robbins
29. Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. - Jean-Michel Basquiat
30. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
31. True love stories never have endings. - Richard Bach
32. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. - Charlie Chaplin
33. Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. - Henry Ward Beecher
34. Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. - Fran Lebowitz
35. When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. - William Makepeace Thackeray
36. When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. - William Makepeace Thackeray
37. Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. - Drew Barrymore
38. I love you more than my own skin. - Frida Kahlo
39. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. - Bette Davis
40. 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
41. I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love. - Jennifer Lopez
42. 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
43. Romance is everything. - Gertrude Stein
44. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler
45. Kiss me and you will see how important I am. - Sylvia Plath
46. Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. - Johnny Depp
47. All the windows of my heart I open to the day. - John Greenleaf Whittier
48. Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. - John Greenleaf Whittier
49. Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. - Mason Cooley
50. All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. - James Russell Lowell
51. I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home. - Dorothy L. Sayers
52. There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. - Ben Affleck
53. If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. - Stendhal
54. O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. - Christopher Marlowe
55. 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
56. There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. - Sammy Davis, Jr.
57. 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
58. Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
59. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. - Halle Berry
60. 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. - Emma Watson
61. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. - Kristen Stewart
62. I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her. - Steve Carell
63. Beauty is the lover's gift. - William Congreve
64. My heart is like a singing bird. - Christina Rossetti
65. Love alone could waken love. - Pearl S. Buck
66. The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. - Douglas Horton
67. If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance. - Salma Hayek
68. I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. - Daniel Radcliffe
69. If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. - Bernard Williams
70. Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth. - Hesiod
71. Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. - Mignon McLaughlin
72. Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor
73. My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. - Wild Bill Hickok
74. When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. - Sarah Jessica Parker
75. The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. - Havelock Ellis
76. Romantic love is an addiction. - Helen Fisher
77. Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star. - Oscar Hammerstein II
78. There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. - Paul Simon
79. Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. - Dar Williams
80. I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. - Alice Cooper
81. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano De Crescenzo
82. Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. - Conor Oberst
83. I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. - Portia de Rossi
84. Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. - Samuel Daniel
85. I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time. - Max Muller
86. A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight. - Edward VIII
87. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. - Sinclair Lewis
88. We only part to meet again. - John Gay
89. What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick
90. Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. - Robert Herrick
91. I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama. - Ang Lee
92. Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. - Billy Strayhorn
93. 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 unrepressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley
94. Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. - Barbara Ehrenreich
95. 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. - Rachel McAdams
96. 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. - Jennifer Love Hewitt
97. 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. - Jennifer Love Hewitt
98. That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. - Sean Penn
99. The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. - Leslie Caron
100. Words of love, are works of love. - William R. Alger
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