Quotes And Pics for Romantics

“This is True Love–you think this happens every day?” 

~Westley and Buttercup, The Princess Bride

"How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning."  

~ Thomas Campbell

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”  ~Alexandre Dumas Père

"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous." 

~Ingrid Bergmen 

“True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.” ~ Unknown

“In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.”

~ Hans Nouwens

"But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever." ~Robert Burns

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach." ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

“It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn’t love you were in. There are no ‘exit’ signs in love, there is only an ‘on’ ramp.” ~ Unknown

“Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.” ~ David K. Leung

Victor Hugo“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness, which becomes at times almost insupportable.”

Vincent van Gogh“Love is eternal. The aspect of it may change, but the essence remains the same.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”

“To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded.”

Oscar Wilde“To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair.”

Agnes Repplier“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”

Victor Hugo“Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.”

Igor Stravinsky“What force is more potent than love!”

Ovid“Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.”

Percy Shelly“Soul meets soul on lover’s lips.”

John Bulwer“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”

Ovid“Meminerunt omnia amantes [Lovers remember everything].”

Eaton Stannard Barret“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; even love unreturned has its rainbow.”

James Thurber and E. B. White“Love is the strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.”

Ramanathan Srinivasan“The most difficult thing to explain in life is the simplest truth called love.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” ~Shakespeare

“True love is friendship–caught on fire.” ~ Gatech Kato

'Truths and Roses'

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” ~Mark Overby

“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Life is a rose; beware of the thorns.”
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.”
~Proverb Quote

“How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.”
~ Victor Hugo

“The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.”

“Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside…but there is always pain hidden somewhere.”

“Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.”

“The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its lovliness.”
~Therese of Lisieux
“The rose is a flower of love. The world has acclaimed it for centuries. Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant. White roses are for love dead or forsaken, but the red roses, ah the red roses are for love triumphant.”

“He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.” Persian Proverb
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.” Swedish Proverb

“Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.” Susan Coolidge

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. ~William Shakespeare
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
-~John Boyle O’Reilly
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
~Christopher Marlowe

The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
~Bryant

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet,
And beds of fragrant mignonette.
~Elaine Goodale

The rose is fairest when ’tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott

She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.
~Thos. Haynes Bayly
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln

This old world that we’re livin’ in
Is might hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every Rose
But – ain’t the roses sweet?
Frank Stanton

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.  ~Emma Goldman

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
~J. M. Barrie
“You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you–the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?”
~Emily Bronte

“They are not, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream,
Our path emerges for a while, then closes,
Within a dream.”~Ernest Dowson

“And she was fair as is the rose in May.” ~Geoffrey Chaucer

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.” ~Henry David Thoreau