Romantic Quotes
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Looking for the perfect words to woo your crush? You've come to the right place. Click on any romantic quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."Source: The Fault in our Stars | Author: John Green
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."Source: The Catcher in the Rye | Author: J. D. Salinger
"Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."Source: The Alchemist | Author: Paulo Coelho
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—"Source: Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art | Author: John Keats
"Fat bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round."Source: Fat Bottomed Girls | Speaker: Queen
"Hey, Dr. Jones. No time for love!"Source: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Speaker: Short Round
"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison
"I heard it through the grapevine, not much longer would you be mine."Source: I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Speaker: Marvin Gaye
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I will always love you."Source: I Will Always Love You | Speaker: Dolly Parton (and Whitney Houston)
"I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain."Source: Singin' in the Rain | Speaker: Don Lockwood
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"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."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea"Source: Annabel Lee | Author: Edgar Allan Poe
"It's something about the way you look tonight."Source: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" | Speaker: Elton John
"O my Luve's like a Red, Red Rose That's newly sprung in June"Source: A Red, Red Rose | Author: Robert Burns
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Saturday night's alright for fighting."Source: Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting | Speaker: Elton John
"See that girl, watch that scene, digging the Dancing Queen."Source: "Dancing Queen" | Speaker: ABBA
"Signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours."Source: Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."Source: The Fault in Our Stars | Author: John Green
"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the beast."Source: Beauty and the Beast | Speaker: Mrs. Potts
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."Source: The Truth About Forever | Author: Sarah Dessen
"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."Source: Crime and Punishment | Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"We accept the love we think we deserve."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."Source: Paper Towns | Author: John Green
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."Source: The Great Gatsby | Speaker: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."Source: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen
"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald