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Romantic Quotes

Are you looking for some romantic quotes for your girlfriend, or boyfriend? You are in the perfect place.

I love thee – I love thee,
‘Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day. ~Thomas Hood

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain. ~John Keats

I love your hills and I love your dales,
And I love your flocks a-bleating;
but oh, on the heather to lie together,
With both our hearts a-beating! ~John Keats

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard

You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~Dr. Seuss

If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. ~John Donne

My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,
It passed into thy lifelong regency. ~Gilbert Parker

Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. ~Napolean Bonaparte, letter to wife Josephine, December 1795

Oh, hasten not this loving act,
Rapture where self and not-self meet:
My life has been the awaiting you,
Your footfall was my own heart’s beat. ~Paul Valéry

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare

Romantic QuotesTo lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. ~Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let’s kisse afresh, as when we first begun. ~Robert Herrick, “To Anthea (III)”

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. ~William Shakespeare

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite. ~William Shakespeare

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words. ~Margaret Mitchell

Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover

The Oriole weds his mottled mate,
The Lily weds the bee;
Heaven’s marriage ring is round the earth,
Let me bind thee? ~Author Unknown

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore

I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~A.C. Van Cherub

Her very frowns are fairer far
Than smiles of other maidens are. ~Hartley Coleridge

Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

My whole heart for my whole life. ~French saying used on poesy rings

A man had given all other bliss,
And all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart in one kiss
Upon her perfect lips. ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson

[L]eave a kiss but in the cup, and I’ll not look for wine. ~Ben Jonson, To Celia

Two souls, one heart. ~French saying used on poesy rings

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. ~Catherine of Aragon, 1535

Positive Friendship Quotes

– “What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies.” – Aristotle

– “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – Saint Jerome

– “I count myselt in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.” – William Shakespeare

– “I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “Sir, more than kisses, letters, mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.” – John Donne

– “Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.” – John Boyle O’Reilly

– “Friends have all things in common.” – Plato

– “Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.” – Artistotle

– “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford

– “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Unknown

– “No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.” – George Eliot

– “It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,
A happy and auspicious bird of calm…” – Shelly

– “The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner

– “The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.” – Thomas Jefferson

– “One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.” – Francoise Sagan

– “Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.” – Kahil Gibran

– “There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.” – Bejamin Disraeli

– “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” – Walt Whitman

– “True friendship is never serene.” – Marquise de Sevigne

– “When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.” – Anatole Broyard

– “Friends are born, not made.” – Henry Adams

– “This communicating of a man’s self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joy, and cutteth griefs in half.” – Francis Bacon

– “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what is made by the friends whom we choose.” – Tehyi Hsieh

– “There is no hope of joy except in human relations.” – Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

– “The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

– “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.” – James Fenimore Cooper

– “Friendship without self interest is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.” – James Francis Byrnes

Famous Love Quotes

“A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.” – Abraham Crowley

“So much of what we know of love we learn at home.” – Unknown

“You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry the person who you cannot live without.” – Unknown

“Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.” – Unknown

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

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” – Ingrid Bergman

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.” – John Donne

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.” – Joseph Conrad

“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.” – La Rochefoucauld

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?” – Christopher Marlowe