Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Lafcadio Hearn

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

Oscar Wilde

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

Oscar Wilde

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Oscar Wilde

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Oscar Wilde

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Oscar Wilde

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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.

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.

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 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.

Neil Gaiman

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

John Steinbeck

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Seth Gabel

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Melissa Marr

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Megan McCafferty

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

Meg Cabot

Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well ---- the reason why everyone loves them ---- is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.

Marina Warner

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

Lisa Scottoline

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Morris Chestnut

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Marianne Williamson

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Mason Cooley

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Nora Roberts

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

Nora Roberts

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Nora Roberts

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....