Quotes of: Romantic-love Keyword

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Helen Fisher

Gondolas are romantic. Forgetting the last word in the phrase “I love you” isn’t romantic. Still, I get credit for rowing, right?

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

Zooey Deschanel

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Helen Fisher

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

Thomas Jane

No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love. Romantic love is in there, obviously, because I enjoy writing about that and living it a lot.

Stephenie Meyer

Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is so good. It is not only good; it is pure, precious, even sacred and holy.

Love

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

Ayelet Waldman

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Henry Rollins

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

James L. Brooks

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

Jim George

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Jeremy London

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 ...

Khaled Hosseini

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

Patience is a virtue and the best things in life are worth waiting for.

The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Maggie Gallagher

Men with high baseline levels of testosterone marry less frequently, have more adulterous affairs, commit more spousal abuse, and divorce more often.

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Most people who fall obsessively in love claim that it happens precipitously, unexpectedly [...] But I believe there's almost always a prerequisite. Falling in love in this way will usually occur at a time of transition. We may not be conscious of it...

Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession