45 Most Romantic Quotes About Love in Books, Literature, Poetry & Prose

Why not get your favourites to add to your wedding stationery, or make a note of them to include in future anniversary cards?

45 Quotes About Love in Books

Romantic lines from books can come from many different sources - from plays and poetry to novels and prose, the authors of our past and present have filled the literary canon with sweet nothings to inspire you on your wedding journey. 

You might be wondering how romantic book quotes about love can be useful when preparing to get married. Well, the truth is there are so many ways to use love lines from books, poems, or plays to elevate every last detail of your big day.

For example, perhaps you're writing a speech to deliver to new spouse, or to read to your child or best friend on their wedding day. Some of the most popular wedding speeches or toasts can be finished with love quotes from novels, as famous authors and poets are often able to articulate our feelings better than we can ourselves. 

Or, you could add your preferred literature quotes on love to your wedding invitations. After all, the invitations are the first thing from your special day that your guests will see, and with the right literary quotes about love you can really kick the celebration off on a romantic note. Even if you're not much of a reader, you'd be amazed how in just one romance book, love quotes can be a dime a dozen. 

Alternatively, if you don't want to quote books about love, you could check out romantic, cute and funny love quotations from literature to add a humorous spin to your speech. But if you're hoping to strike a more serious note in your speech or wedding toast, then referring back to our list of love in literature quotes is a great way to start.

In the meantime, with so many romantic quotes from novels, poems, and plays to choose from, we've narrowed them down to 45 of our favourite quotes from literature about love. So, whether you're after literary quotations about love from classic novels or touching lines of poetry, you've come to the right place.

You can use the links below to jump to your preferred section. So, without further ado, let's read the best quotes about love in books of all time!

• Literary Love Quotes in Classic Books
• Literary Love Quotes in Contemporary Books
• Literary Love Quotes From Poetry
• Literary Love Quotes From Plays

Literary Love Quotes in Classic Books

• "We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright" - A Moveable Feast, Earnest Hemingway
• “You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” - Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell 
• “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 to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!” - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
• “What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?” - Adam Bede, George Eliot
• “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• “To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.” - Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
• “You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” - Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
• “In vain I have 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.” - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• “Each time you happen to me all over again.” - The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
• “And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.” - The Symposium, Plato
• “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• “It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.” - The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
• “You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle
• “The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.” - The Amber Gods, Harriet Prescott Spofford
• “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare – there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” - Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
• “Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” - The Princess Bride, William Goldman
• “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• “Why, darling, I don’t live at all when I’m not with you.” - A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

Literary Love Quotes in Contemporary Books

• “You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.” - For One More Day, Mitch Albom
• “I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.” - The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
• “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” - Winnie the Pooh , A. A. Milne
• “Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the pale surf appear all down the shore and roll and crash and darken again. When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.” - The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• “If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” - The Evolution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
• “I like myself better when I’m with you.” - Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
• “I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.” - Atonement, Ian McEwan
• “Always.” - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

Literary Love Quotes From Poetry

• “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” - Rabbi Ben Ezra, Robert Browning
• “He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest.” - Stop All the Clocks, W. H. Auden
• “Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” - The Clod and the Pebble, William Blake
• “We loved with a love that was more than love.” - Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe
• "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight." - Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Love is like the wild rose-brair, Friendship like the holly-tree - The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?" - Love and Friendship, Emily Bronte
• "Love, like a mountain-wind upon an oak, Falling upon me, shakes me leaf and bough" - Love, Sappho
• "My true-love hath my heart and I have his" - My True Love Hath My Heart, Sir Phillip Sydney
• "I wish I could remember that first day, first hour, first moment of your meeting me" - The First Day, Christina Rossetti

Literary Love Quotes From Plays

• “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”­ - Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley
• “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.” - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
• “Who, being loved, is poor?” - A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde
• “I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?” - Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
• "It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst." - The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard
• "This is what it is to love an artist: the moon is always rising above your house.,, Inside his head there is always something more beautiful." - Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl
• "Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love." - Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill
• "You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go." - Angels in America, Tony Kushner
• "One should be able to have the man one loves." - The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me, Larry Kramer

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