Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy.

Debbie Macomber

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

Anna Quindlen

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

E. M. Forster

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Agatha Christie

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Abhishek Bachchan

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

Drew Holcomb

There’s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as we’re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.

D. H. Lawrence

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

David Levithan

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.

Dave Grohl

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

Anita Desai

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Andrew Dice Clay

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance.

Alice Munro

I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

Dar Williams

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Andre Dubus

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Ang Lee

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

David Lyons

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Alexander Pope

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language.

Satoru Iwata

There would be no paperbacks, no romance novels, no magazines.

Nicholas Sparks

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section.

Nicholas Sparks

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

Julia Quinn

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

Julia Quinn

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Patton Oswalt

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

Neil Strauss

Attraction is not an option.

Marc Anthony

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.