Top 410 Romantic Quotes

Romantic Quotes: Expressing Love and Affection

Capturing the Essence of Romance

Romance is a language of the heart that transcends boundaries and speaks to the depths of our souls. It is the expression of love, passion, and affection that brings warmth and joy to our lives. In this article, we present a collection of romantic quotes that beautifully encapsulate the essence of love, ignite the flames of passion, and celebrate the beauty of connection between two hearts.

Romantic quotes have the power to evoke emotions, awaken desires, and express the depth of our feelings. They serve as whispers of affection, tender reminders of love’s enchantment, and gentle nudges to cherish the bonds we share. Whether you’re in the midst of a blossoming romance, celebrating years of togetherness, or simply appreciating the beauty of love, these quotes will resonate with your heart’s longing.

Embracing the Language of Love: Quotes to Stir the Heart

Immerse yourself in the following collection of romantic quotes and let them speak to your heart. Feel the rush of emotions, the sweetness of love’s embrace, and the power of connection as you delve into these words of affection. Whether you’re seeking inspiration to express your love or simply seeking to indulge in the beauty of romantic words, these quotes will kindle the flame of passion and remind you of love’s enduring magic.

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to

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
It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is ‘Buffalo ’66,’ which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It’s about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.
Jim Sturgess
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn’t last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn’t endure, or can’t be logically proved and pinned down, it’s worthless.
Sebastian Faulks
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
Sebastian Faulks
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer’s picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor – no matter what you do, and how you twist it.
Robert Frank
Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
Igor Stravinsky
I don’t understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul
I’m looking forward to sproglets but, as I’m the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a bit longer. Mother keeps telling me I should go and freeze some eggs. Not terribly romantic, is it?
Honeysuckle Weeks
I like playing off strong actors, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I’m a hopeless romantic, so I’m fascinated by relationships.
Lara Pulver
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Marya Mannes
I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That’s pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.
Robert Webb
I got into an argument with someone because I said I think 2Pac will be regarded as a great poet. They said he was just a punk gangster. People said the same thing about Francois Villon, and he’s now considered the best French Romantic poet of all time.
Scott Glenn
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
Bette Davis
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Robert Herrick
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly
It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
James Wolcott
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
Joan Didion
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
Morris Chestnut
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
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf
My wife would say I’m not romantic at all, but I would say that I’m the ultimate romancer because I write about… life being brilliant.
Noel Gallagher
If I ever come out with a very serious, romantic project, you should know that it’s because, at that point, I would have experienced a very agitated relationship.
Park Bo-young
I’m not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing ‘All the Way,’ I was really thinking about my wife. People don’t know my personal experience, but they can tell it’s an honest interpretation.
Harry Connick, Jr.
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
Chris Lowell
Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
Katharine Lee Bates
I just – I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of ‘Bachelor,’ and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the ‘Real Housewives’ is just raw, and it’s just – it’s the fights that get me. It’s just very uncomfortable for me.
Ken Marino
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
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it’s kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
Gillian Jacobs
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance – where there’s mystery and intrigue.
Esha Gupta
I've done five films directed by women. I did like it.

I’ve done five films directed by women. I did like it. They had qualities, particularly in the romantic tenderness of scenes. I felt sometimes they were a little bit soft, but maybe they were clever to get the guys working the way they wanted them to.
Jacqueline Bisset
When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of ‘Optic Nerve,’ I hadn’t even been on a date; I hadn’t had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
Adrian Tomine
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they’re not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
Ryan Reynolds
I’ve been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don’t think I’m in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there’s honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn’t easy. And I’m no matinee idol.
Tobias Menzies
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.
Mark Manson
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
Douglas Horton
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler – I was the only one that lived to tell the story – so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman
I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints!
Alice Englert
Most people think of ‘Wuthering Heights’ as romantic; it’s really not about that at all.
Kaya Scodelario
I’ve always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
Mandy Moore
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
Izabella Scorupco
I’ve been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.
Kevin Bacon
My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina Rossetti
I’m not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
Kate Hudson
Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.
Oscar Hammerstein II
I am a romantic fool, no doubt about that.
Alex Turner
It’s easier to write from my own life, and it’s also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they’re romantic relationships, friendships, encounters… there’s always a lesson to be learned from them.
Jason Mraz
I think the best romantic comedies don’t have villains.
Nicholas Stoller
Well, there’s just some universal truths in a way that I’ve just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there’s these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
Feist
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
So the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like ‘You’re the romantic comedy girl’ or ‘You’re the Oscar-winning whatever girl.’
Rachel Weisz