Love Quote by Anthony Powell

“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat…

— Maya Rodale

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

— Camille Paglia

“Unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism.”

— B.S. Murthy

“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition…

— Tariq Ali

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Still, my fascination with Buchanan did not abate, nor was I able, as the Seventies set in, to move the novel forward through the…

— John Updike

“There was a difference between violent, destructive crimes and bending rules that were prejudiced or predatory to start.”

— Angela Flournoy

“In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of…

— Charles River Editors

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were…

— James Truslow Adams

Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism…

— Paul Fry