166 Romantic Marriage Quotes

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Famous Romantic Marriage Quotes

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. — Mary Astell

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. — Anita Brookner

[Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life. — Beatrix Potter

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — G. K. Chesterton

One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs

Short Romantic Marriage Quotes

  • Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. — Isaac Disraeli
  • A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
  • Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
  • Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
  • Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. — Imogen Stubbs
  • Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
  • If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. — Michel de Montaigne
  • Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray
  • If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. — John Hagee
Romantic marriage quote Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

Most Romantic Marriage Quotes

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. — Thomas Moore

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody

Romantic marriage quote We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about wea
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. — Andrew Sullivan

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. — David Fincher

The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life. — Brian Tracy

Marriage Romantic Love Quotes

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it. — Nicholas Sparks

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. - Sigmund Freud

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. - Frank Bruno

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me. — Frank Bruno

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco

Romance In Marriage Quotes

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. — Nicholas Sparks

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. — Jimmy Evans

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. — Gayle Forman

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. — Marilyn Monroe

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Jonathan Swift

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance. — Joan Fontaine

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. — Unknown

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran

In the Forest of Forgetting do you remember any romances? All the relationships in those stories are dark and twisted - people fall in love, but they really shouldn't have. There's even a story about a marriage, but it focuses on a woman who marries a bear! — Theodora Goss

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance. — Alice Moore Hubbard

Romantic Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. — J. G. Holland

We were together. I forget the rest. - Walt Whitman

We were together. I forget the rest. — Walt Whitman

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga

I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty. — Juliette Drouet

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. - Jennifer Donnelly

Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins. — Jennifer Donnelly

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton

Romantic Relationship Quotes

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. - Chris Rock

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. — Chris Rock

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there. — George Burns

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. - Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you. — Kurt Cobain

Ever since I was little, I've shied away from romance. It's not that I dislike women, but I'm not good with them. — Akira Toriyama

We seek the fulfillment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive. — Oliver Burkeman

Choosing a romantic partner isn’t just about the romance—you’re also choosing a confidant, counselor, career advisor, therapist, investor, teacher, travel buddy, roommate, best friend, and business partner. Choose wisely. — Mark Manson

No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key. — Glennon Melton

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice. — Drake

Romantic Life Quotes

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet. — George Strait

Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting. — Dean Martin

And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple. — William Wordsworth

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss

It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholy but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle - everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things. — Alexander McQueen

When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more. — Mario Vargas Llosa

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou

Love And Marriage Quotes

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Ruth Graham

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde

There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage. — Martin Luther

Romantic Friendship Quotes

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. — Laura Ortiz

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are — Barry White

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. — Francois Mauriac

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. — Charles Bukowski

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both. — Isabel Allende

You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had. — Nicholas Sparks

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo. — Oprah Winfrey

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. — Bruce Lee

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Romantic Wedding Quotes

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. — Kiersten White

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. - Arthur Conan Doyle

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle

My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney

And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ] — E. E. cummings

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is. — Winston Groom

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other. — Dave Willis

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. — Rosemonde Gerard

Romantic Quotes

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be. — Ernest Hemingway

My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow through your heart for wild is the wind. — Nina Simone

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. — Erich Fromm

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. — Nicholas Sparks

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. — Haruki Murakami

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. - Frederic Chopin

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. — Frederic Chopin

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it. — Erich Fromm

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More Romantic Marriage Quotes

You are the best thing that's ever been mine. - Taylor Swift quote

You are the best thing that's ever been mine. — Taylor Swift

Love, and you shall be loved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself. — Halle Berry

You're nothing short of my everything. — Ralph Block

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. — Erica Jong

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. — Charles Dickens

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

You know you're in love when you stop comparing. — Mason Cooley

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. — Louis de Bernieres

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever — Nicholas Sparks

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. — Neil Gaiman

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. — Hugh Hefner

Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you. — Elvis Presley

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Graeme Simsion

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours — Ludwig van Beethoven

My heart is ever at your service. — William Shakespeare

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search. — Robert Breault

Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true. — Robert Breault

Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a husband who will cherish her for everything she is, and who will protect her from the harsher realities of the world. A husband who will allow her to dream." -Westcliff — Lisa Kleypas

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. — Hugh Hefner

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning. — Julie Burchill

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