Romantic quotes, the lines that make hearts beat faster, from the great love stories.
The source reads: “Cras amet qui nunquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.” · The refrain of the Pervigilium Veneris, a Latin poem of the fourth century on the eve of the feast of Venus, in Thomas Parnell's 1722 translation; its author is unknown.
Lord Byron · The narrator's aside on first love in Don Juan, Canto III, stanza 3, published 1821.
Maggie Carpenter · Julia Roberts's bride who bolts from every altar until she meets Ike in Runaway Bride (1999) · The source reads: “But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know in my heart you're the only one for me.” · Maggie proposing to Ike at the end with the very words he once used on her, after a lifetime of running from the altar.
Aphra Behn · From her book of a lover's hours.
Anna Scott · Julia Roberts's film star in Notting Hill (1999) · The film star to the bookseller William Thacker in his travel bookshop, on the verge of tears, after he has turned her down for fear of another broken heart.
Robert Burns · The source reads: “O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June:” · The opening of "A Red, Red Rose," the best known lines in Scots verse, written in 1794 to an old tune; Luve is love.
William Shakespeare · Don Pedro, wooing Hero on Claudio's behalf at the masked ball.
William Shakespeare · Romeo on first seeing Juliet at the Capulets' feast, forgetting Rosaline in a breath.
Leo Tolstoy · Pierre to Natasha at the end of Book Eight, after Anatole's attempted elopement has disgraced her and she asks him to tell Andrei to forgive her; Pierre is still married to Hélène. Louise and Aylmer Maude's English translation.
Omar Khayyam · The source reads: “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, / A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness— / Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” · The most quoted quatrain of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat, an English poem made from medieval Persian materials rather than a translation of one verse.
William Shakespeare · Juliet to Romeo on the balcony in Act 2 Scene 2, when he asks her to exchange love's vow with him.
André Gide · Jérôme on Alissa, in the novel of a love too pure to be lived.
Oscar Wilde · The source reads: “Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.” · Mrs. Allonby's two sentences in the second act of A Woman of No Importance, spliced into one line by everyone who quotes it; in the play she says "What we like is to be a man's last romance."
Rhett Butler · Clark Gable's blockade runner in Gone with the Wind (1939) · Rhett to Scarlett in the Paris bonnet scene, a line written for the film by Sidney Howard and not found in the novel.
Colette · From a late story by the French novelist.
Oliver · Armie Hammer's visiting graduate student in Call Me by Your Name (2017) · Oliver to Elio on their first night together, the line that gives the film and André Aciman's novel their title.
Christina Rossetti · The end of the first stanza of "A Birthday," where a heart is a singing bird, a laden apple tree and a rainbow shell, and none of them as glad.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Written from Nice to Joséphine three weeks after their wedding, as he took command of the Army of Italy; the record's sentence runs on past the semicolon, so the familiar form closes it with a full stop.
John Donne · Scolding the sun for waking two lovers.
Albert Einstein · To his cousin Elsa, 30 April 1912, whom he married in 1919.
Catullus · The source reads: “Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis.” · The opening of the poem that goes on to count a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
Albert Einstein · To Mileva Marić, 3 October 1900, three years before they married.
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