Romance Quotes

1581 Romance quotes by 980 unique authors

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word… — Henry Watson Fowler
Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name… — Jodi Picoult
I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination. — Ralph Lauren
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. — Peter Lynch
Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. — Marina Warner
Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew. — Howard Schultz
Passionate conviction ... sparks romances, wins battles, and drives people to pursue dreams others wouldn't dare. Belief in ourselves and in what is right catapults… — Howard Schultz
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the… — Mariella Frostrup
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally.… — James Parton
Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no… — Jaejoong
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic… — Hugo Gernsback
I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and… — Norman Vincent Peale
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. — Dorothy Allison
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. — Billy Strayhorn
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is… — Leslie Poles Hartley
Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to… — Kate Klise
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. — Marco Tempest
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and… — Francis Pharcellus Church
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a… — George Saintsbury
Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is. — Tahereh Mafi
It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed… — KatÃ³ Lomb
It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. — Thomas Bulfinch
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak. — Michael Shurtleff
So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different… — Caroline Knapp

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