“I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.”
Romantic feeling
Romantic Quotes — page 10 of 20
“You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.”
“He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.”
“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
“Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.”
“Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.”
“He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion... no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yes. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.”
“How delicious is the winning Of a kiss at Love's beginning, When two mutual hearts are sighing For the knot there's no untying!”
“Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.”
“We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?”
“Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.”
“To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.”
“Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.”
“There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
“Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.”
“Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.”
“I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?”
“I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.”
“With women the best aphrodisiac is words.”
“I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people, Romeo and Juliet, took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.”