The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics…

“The romantics would call this a love story:the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and…

— Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both,…

— Nicholas Sparks

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

— Simon Singh

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

— William Goldman

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy…

— Marchette Chute

Saint Tropez and Ibiza were the true essences of early New Romantics.

— Martin Kemp

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

— Mason Cooley

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

— Maurice Chevalier

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to…

— Ellen Willis

“Romantics. This book does contain some romantic ideas, and romantic situations that are of the heart, nothing that is in anyway X rated, not…

— Kevin Moccia

“With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.”

— Shannon L. Alder

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships…

— Daniel H. Wilson

“Oh yes, We've all danced to this particular tune at one time in our lives. In my experience, the majority of women are hopeless…

— Catherine Sanderson

“All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.”

— William Blake

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

— Ann Voskamp