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Romantic Quotes

Love, complicated and otherwise.

Some quotes describe chasing a specific kind of romantic role, sweet and vulnerable, while others push back on the word itself and who really earns the label. For more in this vein, see romantic shayari.

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

Words of love, are works of love.

Quotes by William R. Alger

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

Quotes by William Dunbar

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Quotes by William Congreve

Kissing scenes are never romantic or sexy. They're actually super technical, like, 'Move your head; you're blocking her light,' or, 'Stop looking like an idiot when you kiss her.'

Quotes by Will Poulter

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Quotes by Will Rothhaar

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

Quotes by Wentworth Miller

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

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting...

Quotes by Walter Matthau

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Quotes by Walter Hagen

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the...

Quotes by Walter Isaacson

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations...

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

Quotes by Vladimir Putin

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier...

Quotes by Virginia Henley

In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.

Quotes by Vir Das

I'd like to be the romantic lead one day, but I've got to grow my hair first.

Quotes by Vinnie Jones

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

Quotes by Victoria Jackson

I had an instinct to take my husband's name when I got married. It felt like a romantic statement of pride, love, and permanence and of doing what's always been done in my family.

Quotes by Victoria Coren Mitchell

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about wanting to do a romantic comedy?
Yes - one expresses interest in a specific style: "I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role."
Is there a funny, self-deprecating story about a romantic evening gone wrong?
Yes - one recounts an awkward mishap: breaking a nose in gym class, then attending a debutante ball the next week "wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage." As the quote puts it, "Not the romantic night she had in mind." If you enjoy quotes like this, our Jokes collection has more lighthearted takes.
Is there a quote comparing 'romantic' to something unexpected?
Yes - one uses the word in a critical, unconventional way, comparing calling active traders 'investors' to calling someone who "repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
Is there a quote here about the limits of romantic feelings?
Yes - one draws a firm boundary, describing "romantic feelings for a 12-year-old" as being "like entering into a fantasy world."
Where can I find more romantic content beyond quotes?
If you'd like more than quotes, browse our Shayari, Ghazals, or Status collections for other romantic formats.

A few recall romance gone comically wrong, like a bandaged nose ruining a formal evening. Related collections include romantic ghazals and romantic jokes.