Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamaica Kincaid

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

George Saintsbury

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 very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

George Saintsbury

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Jean Reno

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

Jean M. Auel

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

George Canning

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

Jen Kirkman

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

George Strait

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Gena Showalter

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Gena Showalter

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

Satoru Iwata

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

J. K. Rowling

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Gene Kelly

I miss the romance. I keep saying this over and over again, but dance follows music. And if the accent today is percussion and rhythm and loudness, then that is the way the dance numbers will be. But it is pretty hard on romance with seven guitars, three drums, and no melody instruments in the band.

Jennifer Aniston

I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.

Jennifer Aniston

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

Horace Walpole

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Andrea Marcovicci

How's Your Romance? Andrea Marcovicci Sings Cole Porter.

Irving Berlin

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

Olivia Newton-John

He's very romantic; the most romantic person I've ever met.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

John Fowles

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Jonah Hill

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest romance is with the Infinite.

Rachel Caine

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

Quentin Tarantino

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

Natsuki Takaya

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

Rachel Cohn

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

Maggie Stiefvater

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable