Quotes about Romance
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- John Keats
From his lips/not words alone pleased her.
- John Milton
Singing is a lover's thing.
- St. Augustine
Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
- Mae West
Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
- Mae West
Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love — that's not so bad either.
- Mae West
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
- Gloria Steinem
No wonder the romance of Wuthering Heights endures—as do romantic myths in almost every culture. Indeed, the more patriarchal and gender-polarized a culture is, the more addicted to romance. These myths embody our yearning to be whole. No wonder romance so often begins at a physical distance or across a psychic chasm of class and race,* and thrives on death and separation. Projecting our lost qualities onto someone else can be done more easily from a distance.
- Gloria Steinem
Love is wanting what's best for the other person. Romance is wanting the other person.
- Gloria Steinem
Love is meant to be an adventure!!
- Gordon Hinckley