Couple Quotes to Stoke the Flames of Romance

Couples, whether heterosexual, same-sex, married, or unmarried, share a deep bond rooted in love, trust, and respect. Navigating challenges like disagreements and life changes requires communication and compromise. Celebrating milestones and seeking counseling can strengthen the relationship. Despite challenges, being part of a couple brings joy and growth.

Couple Quotes

1. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
— Agatha Christie

2. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
— Oprah Winfrey

3. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
— Maya Angelou

4. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
— Nora Ephron

5. “Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

6. “I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
— Princess Diana

8. “One of the keys to a successful marriage is separate bathrooms. When he enters my bathroom sometimes I’m like, ‘Why are you in here?’ And he’s like, ‘I live here. Can I enjoy my bathroom, too?’”
— Michelle Obama

9. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo

10. “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
— Oscar Wilde

11. “Husband secretly lowers the thermostat and I secretly turn it back up. We both vehemently deny touching it. Marriage is fun.”
— Stephanie Ortiz

12. “Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

13. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle

14. “Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”
— Ice-T

15. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
— Rita Rudner

16. “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.”
— Madonna

17. “There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

18. “Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you.”
— Dolly Parton

19. “When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.”
—​ Taylor Swift

20. “You know there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time… husband!”
— Bill Maher

21. “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.”
— Jane Austen

22. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.”
— Julia Roberts

23. “When you’re lucky enough to meet your one person, then life takes a turn for the best. It can’t get better than that.”
— John Krasinski

24. “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
— Benjamin Franklin

25. “Husbands are like wine, they take a long time to mature.”
— Donatella in Letters to Juliet

26. “I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed, too—for being married so many times.”
— Elizabeth Taylor

27. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
— Joan Crawford

28. “We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike

29. “I think you have different soulmates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times. I do believe in love. I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I’ve always thought.”
—​ Kim Kardashian

30. “Who won in life? Me. Because I got to marry you.”
— Chip Gaines

31. “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.”
— Prince Philip

32. “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
— Robert Frost

33. “Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.”
—​ Katharine Hepburn

34. “Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
— Will Ferrell

35. “Marriage is like a tense, unfunny, version of Everybody Loves Raymond. Only it doesn’t last twenty-two minutes. It lasts forever.”
— Pete in Knocked Up

36. “Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it’s so hard and scary to open your heart to someone. But the point is, vulnerability is the key to happiness. Vulnerable people are powerful people.”
—​ Amy Poehler

37. “The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

38. “A man’s main job is to protect his woman from her desire to ‘get bangs’ every other month.”
— Dax Shepard

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

40. “Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.”
— Megan Mullally

41. “People say, ‘Jeez, it must be hard to stay married in show business.’ I think it’s hard to stay married anywhere, but if you marry the right person, it might work out.”
— Tom Hanks

42. “Make sure you have date night even if it’s once in a blue moon because most of the time you’re just too tired and you’d actually prefer to sleep.”
— Chris Hemsworth

43. “I feel like you have to get to know yourself, know what you want, spend some time by yourself, and be proud of who you are before you can share that with someone else.”
— Beyoncé

44. “I married for love but the obvious side benefit of having someone around to find my glasses cannot be ignored.”
— Cameron Esposito

45. “True love is singing karaoke ‘Under Pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”
—​ Mindy Kaling

46. “Look, you want to know what marriage is really like? Fine. You wake up, she’s there. You come back from work, she’s there. You fall asleep, she’s there. You eat dinner, she’s there. You know? I mean, I know that sounds like a bad thing, but it’s not.”
— Ray Barone

47. “Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?”
— Kim in The Last Kiss

48. “You go, ‘You make me laugh, you make me smile, you make me feel loved, you make me food.'”
— Nikki Glaser recalling Amy Schumer’s wedding vows

49. “I’m just a diaper-changing facility hooked up to a life-support system, but my wife, she’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner. She’s a human Denny’s all day long…and it never ends for her. She’s the most beautiful Denny’s you’ve ever seen though, I guarantee it.”
— Ryan Reynolds

50. “Because I always say, if you’re married for 50 years, and 10 of them are horrible, you’re doing really good!”
— Michelle Obama

51. “I’m just a big believer in ‘you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,’ and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.”
— Scarlett Johansson

52. “You might not have been my first love, but you were the love that made all the other loves irrelevant.”
— Rupi Kaur

53. “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.”
— Socrates

54. “We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working.”
— Justin Timberlake

55. “I’d like to publicly thank my husband [Dax Shepard] for changing half the diapers in our house. I hope he changes all of mine one day…”
— Kristen Bell

56. “Being a good husband is like being a stand-up comic. You need 10 years before you can call yourself a beginner.”
— Jerry Seinfeld

57. “Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.”
— Mickey Rooney

58. “After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right. So surprisingly we just stopped fighting after that.”
— Barack Obama

59. “Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three-meals-a-day and remembering to carry the trash out.”
— Joyce Brothers

60. “The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.”
— Anne Bancroft

61. “My wife and I have been married for 21 years, and without a doubt, the hardest times we’ve faced were those times when we hated each other.”
— Andy Richter

62. “My wife didn’t take my name which isn’t weird but what’s weird is when people think it’s weird like we’re on a first-name basis anyway.”
— Mark Agee

63. “The first draft of my vows, which I wrote the day after we got engaged, clocked in at around 70 pages.”
— Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation

64. “We just like each other. You start there…I still can’t believe my wife goes out with me. If we were in high school and I was just funny, I’d never have the courage to talk to her.”
— Tom Hanks

65. “Personally, I love a great love story.”
— Meghan Markle

66. “Love, gratitude, compassion, because sometimes every man or every woman will drive their partner crazy.”
— Goldie Hawn

67. “Marriage is like a graph—it has its ups and downs and as long as things bounce back up again, you’ve got a good marriage. If it heads straight down, then you’ve got some problems!”
— Dame Julie Andrews

68. “A simple ‘I love you’ means more than money.”
— Frank Sinatra

69. “The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you’re with. You have to every single day—mind, body, and spirit—wake up with a commitment to be better.”
— Will Smith

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

71. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.”
— Winston Churchill

72. “Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song, ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.”
— Barack Obama

73. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.”
— Erma Bombeck

74. “Only married people can understand how you can be miserable and happy at the same time.”
— Chris Rock

75. “We were married for better or worse. I couldn’t have done better and she couldn’t have done worse.”
— Henny Youngman

76. “She’s your lobster. Come on, you guys. It’s a known fact that lobsters fall in love and mate for life. You can actually see old lobster couples, walking around their tank, you know, holding claws.”
— Phoebe Buffay in Friends

77. “Just found out the wife is writing a book about our honeymoon, called ’50 Shades of Just O.K.’”
— Conan O’Brien