Romance Quotes - Page 6

• Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

  Mason Cooley

  Romantic, Love Is, Calm

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• This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

  John Evelyn

  Knights, Gentleman, Littles

  E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 40 (6 September 1651)

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• You’re dangerous,” he says. “Why?” “Because you make me believe in the impossible

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Impossible, Rules Of Attraction

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Needs, Texture

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

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• But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

  John Buchan

  Dust, Firsts, Should

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• O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

  John Keats

  Song, Simple, Planning

  John Keats (1962). “John Keats: With a Detailed Study and Text of Selected Poems”

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• Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining.

  Connie Brockway

  Country, Egypt, Lovely

  Connie Brockway (2010). “As You Desire: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, p.117, Loveswept

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• I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Thinking, Choices

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Benjamin Disraeli (1974). “Sybil”, p.308, Prabhat Prakashan

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  I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Birthday, Lying, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept

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• Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Passion, Humanity

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• For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

  Charlie Huston

  Eye, Men, Just Friends

  "Already Dead". Book by Charlie Huston, 2005.

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• Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.

  Glenn Beck

  Love, Lying, Funny Relationship

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• He's like a drug for you, Bella.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Romantic Love, Drug, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.

  June Carter Cash

  Love, Life, Sex

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• For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

  William Shakespeare

  Tragedy, Romeo And Juliet Love, Stories

  1595 Prince. Romeo andJuliet, act 5, sc.3, l.308-9.

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Healing, Certain

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• Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Color, Taste, Bliss

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• Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beard, Tradition, Young

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier”, p.62, tredition

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• She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

  Jane Austen

  Youth, Natural, Grew

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Change, Passion

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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