The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the
more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if
passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead...
--John Boorman
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
--Oscar Wilde
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
--Havelock Ellis
Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement.
To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose
it forever.
--Leo Buscaglia
Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.
--Helen Rowland
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--C.G. Jung
Love that is not madness is not love.
--Pedro Calderon
We loved with a love that was more than love.
--Edgar Allan Poe
Paradise is always where love dwells.
--Jean Paul F. Richter
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration,
Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what
surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in
my life.
--Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch)