Romance Quotes - Page 29

• A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.

  Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

  Kings, Queens, Males

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• There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Love, Friendship, Opposites

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• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Funny, Dog

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

  Thomas Malory

  Love, Night, Men

  Sir Thomas Malory (1936). “A Shorter Malory”

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• There are three basic personality factors in cats: The kind who run up when you say hello and rub against you in cheap romance; the kind who run away certain that you mean to ravish them; and the kind who just look back and don't move a muscle. I love all three kinds.

  Eve Babitz

  Running, Moving, Mean

  Eve Babitz (2015). “Eve's Hollywood”, p.134, New York Review of Books

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• More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

  Jim Dine

  Drawing, Important, Mark

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• Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.

  Granville Penn

  Dream, Mistake, Science

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• In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.

  Karl August Varnhagen von Ense

  Heart, Huts, Ifs

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• A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

  Charles-Francois Dupuis

  Believe, Errors, People

  Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.270, Lulu.com

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• We were two and had but one heart between us.

  Francois Villon

  Love, Happiness, Heart

  "Le Grand Testament" by François Villon, 'Lay', Line 986,, 1461.

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• Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Believe

  “How Do I Love Thee?” devotional address, Brigham Young University, www.lds.org. February 15, 2000.

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• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Blessed, Heart, Men

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• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Literature

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

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• I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending a lot of money on it. They’re going for a very gritty and realistic portrayal of the Highlands and I play Dougal MacKenzie, the War Chieftain of Clan MacKenzie. As that implies, he’s quite the serious character. There’s lots of political intrigue, there’s romance, there’s adventure and action and there’s time-travel.

  Graham McTavish

  War, Adventure, Character

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• Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a wounded earl and a determined heroine whose heart won't be denied.

  Tessa Dare

  Character, Heart, Voice

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• Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Men, Eternal Friendship, Wonderful

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• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages, high winds and lonely sunsets.

  Qurratulain Hyder

  Song, Lonely, Sunset

  Qurratulain Hyder (2010). “Fireflies in the Mist”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• In romance, I can’t stand this scenario: A woman is awakened to find a strange man in her bedroom—and then automatically finds him attractive. I’m sorry, but if I awoke to a strange man in my bedroom, I’d be reaching for a weapon—not admiring the view.

  Kristin Nelson

  Sorry, Men, Views

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• The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman... I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.

  Robert Pattinson

  Regret, Hate, Stuff

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• I hope there is such a thing. I guess it would be quite scary to find a soul mate when you're young because you're probably going to mess it up.

  Robert Pattinson

  Scary, Soul, Would Be

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• I'm always shocked by the people who I'm attracted to. It's always completely random. I generally like people who are a bit crazy but yeah, that's pretty much my only prerequisite.

  Robert Pattinson

  Crazy, People, Yeah

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• I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it was from someone else, and the other guy claimed it as well, which was just great.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Flower, Years

  "Q&A: Robert Pattinson on 'Twilight: New Moon'". Interview with Brandy McDonnell, newsok.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I'm not one of these guys who's constantly in a relationship, not at all

  Robert Pattinson

  Guy

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• Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Religious, Hero, Airplane

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Ink, Paper

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.305

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