— Twelfth Night
Quotes About Romance
Émile Zola explained the mechanics of a first kiss: when lovers kiss on the cheeks, they are searching for one another's lips, and lovers are made by a kiss. Dante wrote of a love that outlasted the body, loving someone once in mortal flesh and loving them still without it. Marcel Proust captured the hesitation that comes before any of this, wondering whether he would even have dared to speak to her.
Romance in fiction is often full of restraint. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of a man who would not obtrude love upon a woman shaken in mind and nerve. H.G. Wells has a narrator remark that he had not come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. Gustave Flaubert showed attraction through admiration, a man who marveled more the faster her fingers flew over the piano. Agatha Christie had a character list what marriage is called, a haven, a refuge, a crowning glory and a state of bondage. J.R.R. Tolkien found romance, glory and fidelity somewhere unexpected, in the Blessed Sacrament.
Romance in fiction is often full of restraint. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of a man who would not obtrude love upon a woman shaken in mind and nerve. H.G. Wells has a narrator remark that he had not come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. Gustave Flaubert showed attraction through admiration, a man who marveled more the faster her fingers flew over the piano. Agatha Christie had a character list what marriage is called, a haven, a refuge, a crowning glory and a state of bondage. J.R.R. Tolkien found romance, glory and fidelity somewhere unexpected, in the Blessed Sacrament.
— The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
— Pride and Prejudice
In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.
— Great Expectations
Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
— Uncle's Dream
Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.
— Anna Karenina
... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written.
— Swann's Way
I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
— The Time Machine
— Liefde in tijden van cholera
She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.
— The Sign of Four
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.
— Madame Bovary
He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.
— The Reprieve
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
— Civilization and Its Discontents
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
— The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
— Père Goriot
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
— Death in Venice and Other Tales
When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.
— The Fortune of the Rougons
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.
— The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.
— Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.
No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.
Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.