Contrary Quote by Arsene Houssaye

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.

— George Croly

“Romance novels can be broken down into two broad categories: historical romances, which utilize a wide variety of historical backdrops, and contemporary romances. The…

— Cathie Linz

Most romances aren't swept aside by big historical events. Most romances in the history of the world fall apart because of other, smaller happenings.…

— Ned Beauman

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

— Walt Whitman

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

— Ned Beauman

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers…

— Thucydides

“The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest, but if it is judged worthy by those inquirers…

— Thucydides

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

— Horace Walpole

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

— Katharine Anthony

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

— Roger Cotes

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance,…

— Virginia Henley

As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who…

— Elizabeth Bowen