Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McQueen

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

Alexander Pope

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

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.

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.

Dar Williams

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

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.

David Levithan

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

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.

Keith Lockhart

The Rachmaninoff is just one of the most glorious, over-the-top, beautiful, Romantic statements ever.

Heidi Klum

We like to go out and do, just the two of us, romantic things. Sometimes you have to do something just for the two of you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

Bill Cosby

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

C. S. Lewis

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

Antoine Fuqua

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Chauncey Depew

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

Billy Strayhorn

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.

Garrison Keillor

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.

Edward Burnett Tylor

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Jonathan Swift

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Lord Byron

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Mahatma Gandhi

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

Gail Carson Levine

I want to be with you forever and beyond...

Gabrielle Zevin

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.

Ellen Glasgow

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Helen Rowland

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

Lord Byron

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

A lot of the romance of the West is in here.

Gerard Way

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Greta Gerwig

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

Jamaica Kincaid

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.