Romance Quotes

1581 Romance quotes by 980 unique authors

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never… — D. H. Lawrence
And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. — Marie Antoinette
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a… — Washington Irving
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. — W. Somerset Maugham
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. — Thomas Carlyle
Romances paint at full length people's wooing. But only give a bust of marriages. — Lord Byron
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. — Oscar Wilde
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there… — Alexander McQueen
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much… — Oliver Goldsmith
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our… — Hunter S. Thompson
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing… — Arthur C. Clarke
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have… — Umberto Eco
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. — Anita Brookner
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson
In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. — Alexander Pope
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. — Michelle Trachtenberg
People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the… — Adam Arkin
I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own),… — Paul Newman
I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can… — Francine Pascal
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those… — Erich von Stroheim

Who Wrote These Romance Quotes

980 authors contributed a total of 1,581 Romance Quotes, led by these top contributors: