Most Romantic Quotes - Page 4

• Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Selfish, World

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.41, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt.

  Deb Caletti

  Queens, Love You, Men

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . . “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,” Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.” Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.” And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.

  Patricia Briggs

  Girl, Real, Hero

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.75, Penguin

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• I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dream, World

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 4, sc. 1, l. [271]

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• 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

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Trying

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• I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Real, Kissing, Magic

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• I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.

  James McAvoy

  Thinking, World, Difficult

  "Into the Blue". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. April 29, 2013.

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• The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Mountain, Regions

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• his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Desire

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• Okay, my life isn't that romantic! No one has ever sung to me or wrote a song about me. But, I have to say that it's pretty much the most romantic thing ever. So, if that were ever to really happen to me, I would be really happy about it.

  Chloe Bridges

  Song, Would Be, Okay

  "Chloe Bridges Talks Camp Rock 2!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Breathing

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

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• The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Race, Rivers, Dawn

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• If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Needs, Ifs

  Anton Chekhov, Milton Ehre (1992). “Chekhov for the Stage: The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• The early romance was the most romantic experience I have ever had in my life - far surpassing anything I might've dreamed of or imagined, it was quite amazing. When you are young and it's your first love and you are just carried away by it and that's all you can think about.

  Lauren Bacall

  First Love, Thinking, Romance

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

  Joy Browne

  Family, Years, Lasts

  Joy Browne, M.D. (2010). “The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life (and the Eight Realities That Will Save You)”, p.11, Harmony

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• It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'

  Michael Caine

  Thinking, People, Track

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". Interview with William Orbit, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• As the most romantic day of the year approaches, and as a brand that is uniquely male, we wanted to find out how men really feel about Valentines Day, and how they want to celebrate it. The Johnnie Walker Blue Label Luxury Survey tells us what gifts men really want versus what gifts women think men want for Valentine's Day - and the reality is that we're not as far apart as we like to think.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentines Day, Reality, Men

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• A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him. It is necessarily part of the business of a banker to maintain appearances, and to confess a conventional respectability, which is more than human. Life-long practices of this kind make them the most romantic and the least realistic of men.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Men, Practice, Long

  "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values" (1931)

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• If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Space, Needs, Literary Love

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

  Lauren Kate

  Moving, Stories, Chance

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.421, Random House

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• The most romantic thing is to look someone straight in the eyes and say and mean, “I love you”, that's a lot. It's a really hard thing because you can never be certain of yourself, but at that particular moment, you feel like that. Its magic

  Ville Valo

  Love You, Mean, Eye

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• He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

  E. M. Forster

  Real, Love You, Romantic Love

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• I need you," he said to her, this woman who'd fought for her own right to live her life free of limits, "to build me some remote detonation devices." Amazing brown eyes shot with blue peering into his as she pressed her nose to his. "You always say the most romantic things.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Blue, Noses

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1503, Penguin

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• He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. "I'm not crazy," I whispered. "I know." Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.

  Ally Carter

  Crazy, Believe, Arms

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