To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation;
to delude one's self is the romantic
- George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher, poet and humanist, 1863-1952
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is
nothing at all to weep about.
- Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's
nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde
Romance is thinking about your significant other,
when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
- Nicholas Sparks, American writer (“A Walk to Remember,”
“Message in a Bottle,” “The Notebook”)
There is a myth, a tale men tell: Each mussel
shell That in the ocean's bitter deep doth lie,
When it has wrought its pearl, must straightaway
die. O Love, thou art the pearl my heart hath
made, And I am sore afraid.
- Hans Christian Anderson
'The Pearl'
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as
self-neglecting.
- William Shakespeare
Life has taught us that love does not consist in
gazing at each other but in looking outward
together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well,
at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them.
The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.
- Nicholas Sparks, American writer (“A Walk to Remember,”
“Message in a Bottle,” “The Notebook”)
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women
like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
It doesn't matter who you love, or how you love,
but that you love
- Rod McKuen
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
- William Shakespeare
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both
sides.
- David Viscott, M.D
A simple friend wonders about your romantic
history. A real friend could blackmail you with
it.
- Unknown
Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
- Indian Proverb
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art
more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do
shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease
hath all too short a date.
- William Shakespeare
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never
a mistake to have loved.
- Romain Rolland
I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking
him to love her.
- Anna Scott (Julia Roberts)
Notting Hill
Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
- Otto Von Bismark
The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a
romantic mix of music that I know most women love
to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women
are nearby.
- Fabio
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great
ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows
up the bonfire.
- Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
When we can't have what we love we must love what
we have.
- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin