341 Romance Quotes for You to Enjoy

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. Jane Austen

Life My Life Sit Down Other Could Write Motive Than Any Romance Serious Save

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel. Julia Quinn

Day Waiting Will Everyone Abbey For The Day Were Historical Romance Which Loves Realize Who Novel Keep Downton Abbey Actually Watching

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy

Women Losing Single Too Compromises Throw Identity Because Making Afraid Romance Being Romantic Themselves Then Many Start

Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture. Katha Pollitt

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In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it. Kathleen Quinlan

Good People Good Things World Sadness Looking Find Something Still Afraid Romance Where Happen Much Even Things

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. Mark Pellegrino

Vampire Guys Tend Most Romance Stories Anything Disparage Novels

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. Nicholas Sparks

Would Would-Be Submitted Any Romance Novels Rejected

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Oscar Wilde

Science Sentiment Settlement Never End Begin Romance Should

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Oscar Wilde

Dramatist Give Look Romance While Realism Ask Actor

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. Sarah MacLean

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. Sasha Grey

Love Me You Thought Think Ring Shiny Person Romance Romantic

Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love. Seamus Dever

My mom handed me my first romance novel. Sylvia Day

Mom Me First Handed Romance Novel

It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper. Teresa Medeiros

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden

I have always been fascinated with romance and the fact that it is so effortless when we first fall in love but how it then becomes a conscious effort to stay creative and connected. Thats why I always say, 'Get wise: keep your romance alive.' Yolanda Hadid

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'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. Chuck Palahniuk

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. Abhishek Bachchan

Comedy Films Everything Previous Like Always Done Romance Differently

Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think. Abi Morgan

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Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age. Adora Svitak

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In the digital age, there is a new rule book for romance. Adwoa Aboah

Age Book Digital Digital Age Rule Rule Book New Romance

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. Alexander McQueen

Hidden Romance Agenda Fragility

After I finished 'The Darkest Minds' series, I knew I wanted to take a risk and work on something completely different - lighter in tone, with a little bit more romance, and a completely different set of characters - that would also, um, finally justify my liberal arts degree. Alexandra Bracken

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