Book Quotes About Love: 25 Romantic Lines From Classic Novels
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Love, the way the classics wrote it
Long before BookTok, novels taught readers how love sounds when someone finally says it out loud. These are the lines people still put in letters, wedding speeches and tattoos.
Every quote is copied word for word from the public-domain text on Project Gutenberg, with the chapter it comes from, so you can find it in your own copy. Page numbers differ between editions, so we give the chapter.
Confessions
“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.”
Mr. Darcy’s first proposal — rejected, because his pride arrived before his love.
“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”
“You are part of my existence, part of myself.”
Two souls, one
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
Catherine on Heathcliff — probably the most-shared romantic line in English literature.
“He’s more myself than I am.”
“My great thought in living is himself.”
“I have little left in myself—I must have you.”
“Reader, I married him.”
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”
Sweet, funny and wise
“Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”
“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”
Love that changes you
“The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self”
“Love is the only ecstasy. All the rest weeps. To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more.”
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
“My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?”
Save the lines you’d write in a letter
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More quote collections: Book quotes about life · Quotes from books that hit hard · and full pages for Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre and Walden.
FAQ
What is the most romantic line in literature?
Many readers pick Catherine’s “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” from Wuthering Heights, or Mr. Darcy’s “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you” from Pride and Prejudice.
Which book quotes about love are good for a wedding or a card?
Short ones work best: “You are part of my existence, part of myself” (Great Expectations), “He’s more myself than I am” (Wuthering Heights), or “My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have” (Romeo and Juliet).
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