15+ Romantic Quotes

There is a myth, a tale men tell: Each mussel shell That in the ocean's bitter deep doth lie, When it has wrought its pearl, must straightaway die. O Love, thou art the pearl my heart hath made, And I am sore afraid.
--Hans Christian Anderson 'The Pearl'

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
--William Shakespeare

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
--Oscar Wilde

Fortune and love befriend the bold.
--Ovid

It doesn't matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love
--Rod McKuen

Who, being loved, is poor?
--Oscar Wilde

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
--William Shakespeare

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
--David Viscott, M.D

A simple friend wonders about your romantic history. A real friend could blackmail you with it.
--Unknown

Where love reigns the impossible may be attained.
--Indian Proverb

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
--William Shakespeare

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
--Romain Rolland

I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
--Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) Notting Hill

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.
--Otto Von Bismark

The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.
--Fabio

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
--Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

When we can't have what we love we must love what we have.
--Roger de Bussy-Rabutin