Romantic Love Quotes - Page 17

• Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

  Agnes de Mille

  Kissing, World, Down And

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• Is not a kiss the very autograph of love?

  Henry Theophilus Finck

  Short Love, Sexy, Kissing

  Henry Theophilus Finck (1887). “Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations, Historic and National Peculiarities”

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• The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

  Emil Ludwig

  Love, Kissing, Two

  "Of Life and Love" by Emil Ludwig, (p. 29), 2005.

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• I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Kissing, Lips, Passionate Kiss

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kissing, Men, Eggs

  The Story of the Gadsbys (1889) "Poor Dear Mamma"

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• Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Women, Kissing, Feminist

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.415

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• We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

  Peter De Vries

  Kissing, Brain, Rubber

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.

  Robert Browning

  Romantic, Believe, Flower

  'In a Gondola' (1842) l. 49

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• One kind kiss before we part,
  Drop a tear and bid adieu;
  Though we sever, my fond heart
  Till we meet shall pant for you.

  Robert Dodsley

  Missing You, Long Distance Relationship, Goodbye

  Robert Dodsley (1797). “The Poetical Works of Robert Dodsley. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings”, p.101

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• Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

  Joan Armatrading

  Romantic, Baroque Music, Baroque

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• She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more
  He could not help but kiss her and adore.

  John Keats

  Kissing, Hands, Slumber

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.181

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• I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Feelings, Mines

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [204]

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• There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

  Amy Poehler

  Romantic, New York, Two

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• There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

  John Boorman

  Romantic, Thinking, Two Sides

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• The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Romantic, Gay, Successful

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• 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

  Romantic, Sex, Believe

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• When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

  John McGahern

  Romantic, Reading, Writing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.

  Francis William Bourdillon

  Love, Eye, Heart

  1878 Among the Flowers,'Light'. 0 See Lyly 523:12.

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• The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Love, Life, Heart

  Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52

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• It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Believe, Love You

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• It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

  Glenway Wescott

  Love, Blind, Love You

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• Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Love, Funny, Girl

  Quoted in Helen Handley, The Lover's Quotation Book (1986)

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• Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.

  Euripides

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

  George Hewitt Myers

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Kissing, Night

  Pablo Neruda, “Drunk As Drunk”

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