Romantic Expectations Quotes

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.

I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

I'm never gonna date again, because I can't imagine meeting a woman that's good enough for my daughters.

You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

I'm not very romantic. My idea of romance is more practical - like washing the car.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

I think, generally, romantic stories end with people together. But I'd like a story that ends, like, hopefully but not necessarily neatly.

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.

The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type.

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.

Dating is the social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.

'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.

Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.

The dating process is not normal for me.

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.