Great Romance Quotes

• In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Epigrams & Aphorisms”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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  Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  F. Scott Fitzgerald's letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

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• The love we give away is the only love we keep.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Valentines Day, Kindness

  Elbert Hubbard, Felix Shay (1912). “The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation”

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• Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Romantic, Cute Boyfriend

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• Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

  Plato

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

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• There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

  Anna Quindlen

  Romance, Special, Rooms

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Romance, Lifetime

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• I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

  Lena Dunham

  Friendship, Girl, Thinking

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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• The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

  Jonah Hill

  Romance, Age, Youth

  "Jonah Hill: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. September 20, 2011.

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Romance, Needs

  "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

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• You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

  Wallis Simpson

  Ideas, Romance, No Idea

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• People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

  Ann Druyan

  Giving Up, Passion, Thinking

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• The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything is has to face without wavering. If we take this view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing marvelous things all the time.
  God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Opportunity, Views

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Wall, Couple, Past

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.

  Joan Hackett

  Brother, Pain, Son

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