1. I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love. - Diane Kruger 

2. I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love. - Nick Carter 

3. When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. - Ella Maillart 

4. Romantic lovers require from each other at least the façade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. - Maggie Gallagher 

5. I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men. - Cameron Diaz 

6. I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. - Michelle Trachtenberg 

7. A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. - Minna Antrim 

8. 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 

9. It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing. - Brittany Murphy 

10. Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. - Glenn Beck 

11. I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. - Gloria Swanson 

12. It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy. - Harry Connick, Jr. 

13. I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly. - Danica McKellar 

14. I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me. - Joel Madden 

15. I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. - Brit Marling 

16. I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time. - Freddy Fender 

17. Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. - Rupert Brooke 

18. I love being one half of a romantic couple. - Julianna Margulies 

19. I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops. - Bob Hoskins 

20. The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. - Anita Brookner 

21. I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. - Rachel Hunter 

22. Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet. - Katharine Lee Bates 

23. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Carolyn Gold Heilbrun 

24. I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. - Will Estes 

25. Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. - Edmond de Goncourt 

26. I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do. - Mary Archer 

27. In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. - Margaret Anderson 

28. If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. - Laurence Housman 

29. Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. - Lillian Gordy Carter 

30. Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. - Aaron Eckhart 

31. I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. - Jeremy London 

32. Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. - Rachael Taylor 

33. The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. - Joan Chen 

34. My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. - Corey Hart 

35. Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. - Julie Delpy 

36. Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - Yeardley Smith 

37. There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. - William Cartwright 

38. 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. - Pete Buttigieg 

39. The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. - Tom Wolfe 

40. My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education. - Vladimir Putin 

41. The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side. - Don Johnson

42. We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. - Mary Wortley Montagu 

43. Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting. - Oscar Wilde 

44. We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' - Warren Buffett 

45. I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. - Dolly Parton 

46. The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. - F. Scott Fitzgerald 

47. It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy. - Taylor Swift 

48. 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. - Steve Martin 

49. 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. - Anne Frank 

50. When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30. - David Bowie 

51. The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. - Henry Rollins 

52. I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. - Gloria Steinem 

53. And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. - Beatrice Wood 

54. I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion. - Virgil Abloh 

55. I'm a romantic slob! - Willie Nelson 

56. I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. - Chuck Palahniuk 

57. Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. - Chuck Palahniuk 

58. I love romantic poetry. - Richard Dawkins 

59. Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival. - Demetri Martin 

60. They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.' - P. J. O'Rourke 

61. Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude. - P. J. O'Rourke 

62. 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. - Gordon Ramsay 

63. Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set. - Stacey Abrams 

64. Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and paints a picture of what is to come. - Stacey Abrams 

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

66. 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. - Morgan Freeman 

67. I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man. - Pat Paulsen 

68. I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. - Jennifer Aniston 

69. I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic. - Jurgen Klopp 

70. I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies. - Chris Evans 

71. Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. - Rush Limbaugh 

72. Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. - James Joyce 

73. I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not a romantic. I'm just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice. - Future 

74. For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? - Michael Caine 

75. I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic. - Kim Kardashian 

76. A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key. - Jennifer Lopez 

77. There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. - Gerard Way 

78. 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 

79. If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. - Tom Hanks 

80. Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make. - Alain de Botton 

81. 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 

82. If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days. - Alain de Botton 

83. The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget. - Alain de Botton 

84. I'm fascinated by Comte's clear-eyed analysis of what was wrong with modern society, which is that you've got industrial capitalism on one side and romantic love on the other. Those, along with non-instrumental art, are supposed to get you through the day? - Alain de Botton 

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

86. I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life. - Reba McEntire 

87. By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

88. At the end of the day, if the guy is going to write the girl a letter, whether it's chicken scratch or scribble or looks like a doctor's note, if he takes the time to put pen to paper and not type something, there's something so incredibly romantic and beautiful about that. - Meghan Markle 

89. I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat. - Meghan Markle 

90. There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. - Twyla Tharp 

91. The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter. - Nick Cave 

92. I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment. - Nick Cave 

93. Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. - Nick Cave 

94. If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it. - Louis C. K. 

95. I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. - Joni Mitchell 

96. I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny? - Jessica Biel 

97. Death was like love, a romantic escape. - Brigitte Bardot 

98. My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man. - Alanis Morissette 

99. I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that. - Greta Gerwig 

100. There are a lot of love stories in 'Maggie's Plan,' but the deepest, truly romantic one is between Maggie and her daughter. - Greta Gerwig