I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.-John Keats
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.-Minna Antrim
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.-Luciano De Crescenzo
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.-Jane Austen
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.-Sinclair Lewis
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe
We only part to meet again.-John Gay
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.-Maya Angelou
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.-Samuel Daniel
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’-Ashton Kutcher
Love is friendship set on fire.-Jeremy Taylor
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.-Edgar Allan Poe
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.-John Keats
If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.-Stendhal
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.-Oscar Wilde
True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach
I love you – I am at rest with you – I have come home.-Dorothy L. Sayers
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.-Katharine Lee Bates
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.-Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.-Sylvia Plath
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.-Edmond de Goncourt
It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married. I am one of those lucky people. And I think she feels that way too. So the romantic stuff is easy because you want them to be happy.-Harry Connick, Jr.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.-Khalil Gibran
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.-Lillian Gordy Carter
I’m into all that sappy stuff – a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I’m kind of an old romantic.-Will Estes
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho. – Sarah Jessica Parker
In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person.-Margaret Anderson
All the windows of my heart I open to the day.-John Greenleaf Whittier
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections, and the truth of imagination.-John Keats
There is no instinct like that of the heart.-Lord Byron
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.-Anita Brookner
Love alone could waken love.-Pearl S. Buck
There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.-William Cartwright
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.-William Makepeace Thackeray
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.-James Russell Lowell
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. – Marya Mannes
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.-Henry Rollins
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.-Marilyn Monroe
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.-Paul Simon
I’m a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I’ve discovered as I’ve grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you’re a kid. It isn’t just a straightforward fairytale.-Rachel McAdams
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.-Ella Maillart
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats-I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.-William Blake
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.-Emily Dickinson
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that’s it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.-Joan Chen
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. – Stephen King
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.-Tom Robbins
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.-Bernard Williams
I’m still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.-Brit Marling
I’m a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we’re hurt, we hurt for a long time.-Freddy Fender
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.-Glenn Beck
I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.-Danica McKellar
I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love – and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.-Emma Watson
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.-Diane Kruger
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. – Charlie Chaplin
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.-Mason Cooley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.-Charles Kingsley
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.-Victor Hugo
I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.-Max Muller