Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome. Mindy Kaling When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. Ella Maillart When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. William Makepeace Thackeray When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it. Sada Thompson Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. Aaron Eckhart You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place wit...

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. Ben Affleck Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. John Greenleaf Whittier 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 We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano De Crescenzo 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 We do not remember days, we remember moments. Cesare Pavese We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. Andre Maurois What is a kiss? Why thi...

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. Havelock Ellis The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. Joan Chen The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. Virginia Woolf The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Dar Williams There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. Sammy Davis, Jr. There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen There's nothing more romantic than Italian food...

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different! Alan Moore Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous. Jean-Michel Basquiat Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. Sean Penn The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. Leslie Caron The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. Marya Mannes The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may...

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. Barbara Ehrenreich Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. Glenn Beck Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Yeardley Smith Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. Billy Strayhorn Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibi...

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful. Drew Barrymore Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. Elizabeth Gilbert Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. Lillian Gordy Carter Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters. Khaled Hosseini My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you. Wild Bill Hickok My idea of a romantic n...

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. Jennifer Love Hewitt 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 I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. Will Estes I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. Jamie Oliver I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. Alice Cooper In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. Anne Boyd In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want t...

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Jeremy London I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love. Nick Carter I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. Gloria Swanson If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bernard Williams If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating. Alexander Koch I'm a dreadful romantic. No...

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. Portia de Rossi I love being one half of a romantic couple. Julianna Margulies I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. John Keats I think I usually play the woman that, after the person tries to go for some extraordinary feat of romantic accomplishment, they happily wind up with me. Jessica Hecht I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea. Tony Benn I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. Jennifer Aniston I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest...

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Chaplin Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. Johnny Depp Death was like love, a romantic escape. Brigitte Bardot Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men. Cameron Diaz I don't like to search too much. I find i...