I did feel a bit of an outsider in the Eighties. But there…

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

— Martin Kemp

The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of…

— Boy George

The Taboo scene was a kind of deconstructed version of the New Romantics. The Taboo crowd was using a lot of the visual ideas…

— Boy George

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and…

— Jo Brand

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

— Roland Orzabal

In the Eighties, I was everywhere. It was hard, because you didn't see much of your children. I missed out on that. People make…

— Shakin' Stevens

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