Quotes tagged ‘romance’

(1071 total)

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

“We are all fools in love.”

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”

— Mr. Knightley, amazon.com

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”

— Elizabeth, amazon.com

“From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succe…”

— Elizabeth, amazon.com

“My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.”

— Darcy, amazon.com

“'My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behavior to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?' 'For the liveliness of your mind, I did.'”

— Darcy, Elizabeth, amazon.com

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

— Darcy, amazon.com

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

— Darcy, amazon.com

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost…”

— Captain Wentworth, amazon.com

“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

— Captain Wentworth, amazon.com

“There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight, at the evil or good of others. This, to Anne, was a decided imperfection. Her early impressions were incurable. She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captiva…”

— Jane Austen, amazon.com

“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”

— Anne Elliot, amazon.com

“I love you very much, my dear Beaver.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com

“If you want him to look forward to your texts, if you want him to say YES when you ask him to hang out, then you’ve got to set the right tone, be funny, and project that you’re large and in charge without being overbearing. You’ve got to build up the romantic and sexual tension without being disresp…”

— Mike Alvear, huffingtonpost.com

“Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can r…”

— Robbie, amazon.com

“You should be kissed, every day, every hour, every minute.”

— Logan, amazon.com

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

— Landon, amazon.com