A Romantic Quotes

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
- Edward Abbey

Romantic love is over-rated but that's what we want in life, someone who love us in a romantic way.
- Ann Marie Aguilar

It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic".
"Didn't you enjoy Titanic?"
"I was relieved when the ship went down".
- Janet Evanovich

Um...It looks like aoh! It looks like a bunny. Aww, that's so stinking cute."
The sun melted the cloud a bit, like cotton candy in the heat. Eventually, the cloud finished its dance with the sun and escaped as a circular blob.
Livia bit her lip. "Well, that went from a romantic moment to horrifying bunny torture."
Blake laughed, and she wanted to put her head on his chest and feel it rumble through him like a happy earthquake.
- Debra Anastasia

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
- Maya Angelou

Kiss me," she said urgently.
Sam's eyes flickered with mild surprise. "Right now?"
"Yes."
"What kind of kiss?"
"What do you mean, what kind of kiss? Just a regular kiss."
"A friendly kiss, or a romantic kiss? Are we supposed to be going out together, or"
"Oh, for heaven's sake," she exclaimed, and pulled his head down to hers.
- Lisa Kleypas

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day.
rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you?
riley: takes one to know one, bro.
- Keri Arthur

I'm really a romantic at heart.
- Christopher Atkins

Rehearsels, actually."
"Rehearsals?"
"For the-"
Oh,no.
"-musicale."
The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who could maintain a romantic thought when faced with the memory-or the threat-of a Smythe-Smith musicale.
- Julia Quinn

A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'
Quite often men are fools.
- P C Cast

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
- Eric Bana

I'm a bit of a romantic.
- Eric Bana

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
- James M Barrie

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
- Lynda Barry

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.
- Jeanmichel Basquiat

Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
- Glenn Beck

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
- L M Montgomery

You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
- Anthony Bourdain

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.
- Anne Boyd

I like threesomes with two women, not because I'm a cynical sexual predator. Oh no! But because I'm a romantic. I'm looking for "The One." And I'll find her more quickly if I audition two at a time.
- Russell Brand

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
- Ann Brashares

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
- Barbara Broccoli

Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
- E A Bucchianeri

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
- Warren Buffett

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Was that amazing?" she demanded.
"That was amazing," I agreed. It's hard to pull off a romantic kiss when you're both drenched in muck, but we gave it our best shot.
- Rick Riordan

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
- Carter Burwell

He was a romantic in his own harsh way...yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
- Stephen King

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
- Morris Chestnut

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
- Louis L Amour

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.
- Bryce Courtenay

I got it right Justine. Feel into it. Your sense of being a misfit blinds you to what your heart really wants. When you get around solid upstanding men you're like a bird with tinfoil. It makes you incoherent on a romantic level."
"My affection is incoherent unless it's for you That's the line you're giving me here "
"This is real." He points out the door. "That isn't.
- Carolyn Crane

The only bit I have pictured in any detail is the music (maybe 'The Book of Love' by the Magnetic Fields. Or Johnny Cash's 'It Ain't Me, Babe'). It doesn't matter if the selection is slow or fast, but couples shouldn't scramble to select it. If you have ever gone dancing or on a road trip or had a romantic bout of serenaded sex on a winter night, you should have a few to pick from. If not, you probably shouldn't be getting married.
- Sloane Crosley

I'm a romantic.
- Tom Cruise

I happen to be really a romantic.
- Amanda Seyfried

Born to be wild; born to be free; nobody owns you; you are, a romantic tree.
- Santosh Kalwar

I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long.
- Andrew Davidson

Why, Criminy Stain," I said. "You're a romantic."
"Oh, no," he said with a grin. "I'm fiendish and unscrupulous, a vicious killer and a thief and a bloodthirsty monster. And maybe a little romantic. But don't tell anyone, or my reputation's shot.
- Delilah S Dawson

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.
- Julie Delpy

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
- Johnny Depp

You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paint-ings", she said. "The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure. Showing through the outline of Tomas the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover. Or, the other way, through a Tristan, always thinking of his Tereza, I see the beautiful, betrayed world of the libertine.
- Milan Kundera

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
- Lena Dunham

I'm a romantic guy.
- Fred Durst

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
- Fred Durst

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
- Sanjay Dutt

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
- Aaron Eckhart

Just remember, girls: The young male vampire is a predator by nature. Some boys may look at you not only as a romantic interest, but as prey..
- Beth Fantaskey

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
- Buchi Emecheta

And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
- Anne Enright

She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh and mope or scream hysterically to impress others with how awful it all was, even though she felt as if something fundamental, deep within her, had been taken away from her. She was simply trying to cope, to get on with her own normal life. Which, she knew, was something he could not be a part of.
- Harriet Evans

Don't worry about it. I'd have dumped me too if I was on a romantic date with that!
- Leigh Fallon

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

The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric.
- Orlando Figes

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
- David Fincher

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
- Dietrich Fischerdieskau

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

...I feared so-you're sentimental. You're not like me. I'm a romantic little materialist."
"I'm not sentimental-I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last-the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

It had seemed like such a good, such a romantic idea, to drive and not stop for gas.
- Alex Flinn

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
- Anne Frank

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.
- Morgan Freeman

By the time Bones announced it was Tammy's turn, I'd fallen in love with him all over again. Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him.
- Jeaniene Frost

Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.
- Neil Gaiman

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
- David Gemmell

Wyatt had planned a romantic evening and he'd been teasing her with little notes for weeks that left hints about what they would be doing. I walked into Miranda's bedroom and she'd taken all those notes off her mirror and had them on her bed in a circle around her. The bear he'd given her last year was sitting in her lap and the necklaced she'd saved so long for was in her hand. She was rubbing the smooth diamond as she stared at the notes in front of her.
- Abbi Glines

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.
- Heather Graham

I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.
- Tom Robbins

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
- Conrad Hall

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
- Jennifer Lopez

Cecil reached for Dave, but Dave stepped back. "Dave, why are you doing this? You're not getting paid. Lovejoy called you off the case. You want the truth? You're compulsive. You can't leave it alone. You're like Adam Streeter, you know that? You live for danger."
"I live for justice," Dave said.
"Justice is a dream," Cecil scoffed, "a romantic ideal. Who the fuck gets justice in this life?(...)
- Joseph Hansen

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.
- Charlaine Harris

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
- Corey Hart

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
- Salma Hayek

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.
- Gordon B Hinckley

None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an comprehend what the ordained utters out of his inspiration.
- E T A Hoffmann

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of "The West Wing." We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.
- Jason Isaacs

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
- Criss Jami

He is a romantic, a dreamer, and never afraid to play the fool. He is fearless and reckless and brave and I love him for it. Desperately.
- Stacey Jay

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
- James Weldon Johnson

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
- James Earl Jones

If love were a color, it'd be orange. Not because that's a romantic color, but because it's the sweetest.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm a romantic. I like cold coffee and orgasms that arrive fifteen minutes after I've put on my clothes and paid the lady.
- Jarod Kintz

When I get excited I drool. That's why I buy bibs wholesale from my dentist. Based on that alone you could label me a romantic.
- Jarod Kintz

The best thing my grandpa ever said to me was, "Gladys, bring me some more damn soup." Well, maybe he wasn't talking to me, but it was still good to hear he was a romantic.
- Jarod Kintz

There is nothing more romantic than candles and flowers, except candles that smell like flowers and flowers that can be burned, as they flicker light while you dine alone and ponder how much of a romantic you are.
- Jarod Kintz

My ex girlfriend would say I am a bit of a romantic. Well, actually, she'd say I bit a romantic. I bit her on the bum.
- Jarod Kintz

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.
- Mindy Kaling

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
- Mindy Kaling

I'm not talking about commitment to romantic relationships. I'm talking about commitment to things: houses, jobs, neighborhoods. Having a job that requires a contract. Paying a mortgage. I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.
- Mindy Kaling

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
- Mindy Kaling

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels.
- Nigel Kennedy

...no matter how beneficial a disappearing act might be for me, I could never tear myself away from a show in progress. Even when the plot's tragic ending is apparent to the entire audience. Perhaps there's a deus ex machina that will lower from the ceiling and turn the whole debacle into a romantic comedy. never can tell. Paid the full ticket price, might as well stay.
- Josh Kilmer Purcell

Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
- Jaron Lanier

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
- Charles Kuralt

We have got too many kids around the house to have a romantic meal at home. But Danielle is a fantastic cook. She does a brilliant lasagne, great roasts and a great chilli dish. She knows the way to my heart.
- Gary Lineker

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.
- Ross Macdonald

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
- Matthew Macfadyen

I love being one half of a romantic couple.
- Julianna Margulies

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
- Rachel Mcadams

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me
- Freddie Mercury

I was blinded by being a romantic person.
- Sienna Miller

Phoebe doesn't quite believe in fate the way I do. She says you have to chase your destiny, and she always expects life to be like a romantic comedy: all you have to do is dress the part of the heroine, and pretty soon you'll be kissing some hottie while fountains spew and music swells in the background.
- Lauren Morrill

Catcher snorted. "If we're not playing naked Twister, we're wasting our waking hours."
"Yep," Mallory said as she tugged him down the sidewalk, "that's the love of my life. He's a romantic at heart.
- Chloe Neill

I'm a romantic slob!
- Willie Nelson

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
- Gary Oldman

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'
- Archie Panjabi

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.
- Sean Penn

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.
- Joaquin Phoenix

I'd seen him around town for a year or so before he made a move on me. I'd heard good and bad things about him. One
friend said he was just out for sex. Another said he was a romantic at heart. What the hell, I thought. I needed sex and romance in my life. Sometimes I believe I would have taken one without the other.
- Christopher Pike

Once Smith had you, he would most likely have tried to negotiate for the lamp."
Everything inside her warmed gently. "You'd give up the lamp if you thought my life depended on it?"
"Without a second thought."
"Oh, Griffin, I'm truly touched. I know how important the lamp is to you."
"And then I'd slit the bastard's throat."
She groaned and rested her forehead on her knees. "Two birds with one lamp. Who says a crime lord can't be a romantic at heart?
- Amanda Quick

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart

We're coming near to the end of the bridge, and the road is once more bathed in the neon light of the street lamps so his face is intermittently in the light and the dark. And it's such a fitting metaphor. This man, whom I once thought of as a romantic hero, a brave shining white knightor the dark knight, as he said. He's not a hero; he's a man with serious, deep emotional flaws, and he's dragging me into the dark. Can I not guide him into the light?
- James E Rogers

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed
- Aleatha Romig

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.
- Portia De Rossi

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.
- Tim Roth

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.
- Dilma Rousseff

Revolutia rusa se afla atunci inca sub stralucirea romantica a acelui Octombrie... Cum inca nu incepuse epoca stalinismului, cu crimele sale, am simtit, cu un romantic fanatism, ca revolutia proletariatului va izbuti sa aduca oamenilor lumea pura intrezarita de stiintele matematice.
- Ernesto Sabato

Christianity is realistic because it says that if there is no truth, there is also no hope; and there can be no truth if there is no adequate base. It is prepared to face the consequences of being proved false and say with Paul: If you find the body of Christ, the discussion is finished, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die. It leaves absolutely no room for a romantic answer.
- Francis Schaeffer

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
- Izabella Scorupco

I think about death all the time, but only in a romantic, self-serving way, beginning, most often, with my tragic illness and ending with my funeral. I see my brother squatting beside my grave, so racked by guilt that he's unable to stand. "If only I'd paid him back that twenty-five thousand dollars I borrowed," he says. I see Hugh, drying his eyes on the sleeve of his suit jacket, then crying even harder when he remembers I bought it for him.
- David Sedaris

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
- Robert Smith

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
- Arthur Symons

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.
- Matt Taibbi

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
- Naomi Watts

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither; I am instead a Romantic.
- Kenzie Western

She didn't believe there was anything like perfect, fairytale love. Most people were flawed and prone to mistakes. She thought herself a romantic but treated love with the same practicality she did most things. They'd had fall-outs and misunderstandings but she'd never been free to be herself like she was with Edward. She couldn't imagine being with another person after him.
- Myne Whitman

You're a romanticist. What do you think a man is, a papaya? To digest your dinner? In pill form?
- William Carlos Williams

Basically, I'm a romantic.
- Pia Zadora

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
- Gabrielle Zevin