Quotes with romance

  • Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
  • Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
  • 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 subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
  • When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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  • Barbara Cartland A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Carolina Herrera A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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 bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Antoine Fuqua Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Anita Desai I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Elizabeth Ashley In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
    Elizabeth Ashley
    American actress of theatre, film, and television (1939 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Adam Arkin 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 subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Ann Druyan People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Isaac D'Israeli Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
    Isaac D'Israeli
    British scholar and writer (1766 - 1848)
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  • Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
    Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
    American academic, feminist and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • George William Curtis Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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