Romantic Love Quotes (599 Quotes)



    Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

    She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their

    Thus it stands:
    Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd
    That, till the father rid his hands of her,
    Master, your love must live a maid at home;
    And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,
    Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.






    It was a tragic event where an innocent party visiting a girlfriend ... was shot and killed at this very apartment complex, ... Because of that, the residents and the Councilman for the district, Mr. Tony Young, came to us and said, 'We need to do something.'

    How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well


    I loved that I went straight from being an incredibly deadly assassin in 'Long Kiss Goodnight' to the mother of a mouse, ... I just thought that was fabulous ... we all have everything within us, the ability to be a killer or the girlfriend of an insect.



    I heard a few people gasp. Then, Tom had this funny conversation with the beer like it was a breakup with an old girlfriend. It had the crowd just howling.

    He's constantly reinventing himself. 'Romance,' for example, is a courtroom drama. You can find nothing else even remotely like that anywhere in his whole canon.

    A bit of extra responsibility and also, obviously, an extra expense. It's going to be hard to travel with a coach and a girlfriend -- just trying to save a few bucks.


    I know where I'm going, but I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to the mountains. I haven't made any plans. I'm just going to play it by ear -- me and my girlfriend. We're also testing at Richmond.

    From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.


    On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.


    One woman in our support group last night was in tears because she went through all this chemo and her boyfriend of three years broke up with her. He said he couldn't handle having a sick girlfriend.

    The DHL deal last week was perceived as a sweetheart deal in the trade. Generally speaking Boeing would have had everything to lose and to me it would have been astounding if they hadn't pulled out all the stops to win this order.


    I do whatever everybody else does I go to a lot of movies, spend time with my girlfriend, try to stay away from the computer. The idea of going and watching 'The Insider' or 'Access Hollywood' at the end of the day makes me want to blow my brains out.

    An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be.


    The brain system for romantic love is associated with intense energy, focused energy, obsessive things - a host of characteristics that you can feel not just toward a mating sweetheart, ... there's every reason to think that girls can fall in love with other girls without feeling sexual towards them, without the intention to marry them.


    I have a girlfriend, but I don't really want to talk about her. I won't name her. She isn't in show business, has nothing to do with it. So I'd rather just keep her out of it.


    Interest in patterned wools was phenomenal this year. We are especially excited about Enchantment, which is part of our new Shalimar collection. Retailers were impressed with its design, color, coordinating options, and hand-carved details, making it one of our top-selling introductions.

    If you want to talk about it, I got the time When you're looking so enchanted, you cover my mind If you think I'll wait forever, maybe you're right There's no such thing as now or never, there's only twilight.




    Surely he reflected and guessed, But may he be cursed how he plotted Again, may he be cursed how he plotted Then he looked, Then he frowned and scowled, Then he turned back and was big with pride, Then he said This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others) This is naught but the word of a mortal.



    NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes some of which have a large sale.




    At least since Darwin, scientists have suspected that dance so often plays a role in courtship because dance quality tracks with mate quality. By using motion-capture technology ... we can confidently peg dancing ability to desirability.


    What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.


    People tend to think I'm always aggressive and strong. The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing, which leads me into terrible, self paralysing depressions. When I go down to this place, I feel so empty and overwhelmed I can barely move. But perversely, I find these traits in a man unacceptable I can't stand someone who can out-depress me. You know that scene in Babe where the farmer clog-dances for the pig Sometimes I'm the sick pig and I need a farmer to cheer me up. And when things get bad, my boyfriend does dance for me, and it never fails to make me laugh. He's a pretty snappy dancer.



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