Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine Anthony

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

Kate Klise

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

Joseph Conrad

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

Joshua Harris

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

Lauren Bacall

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it.

Julie Garwood

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Paul Theroux

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

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.

Neil Strauss

Attraction is not an option.

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.

Nick Hornby

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gloria Swanson

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Nat Wolff

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

Keira Knightley

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital.

Julia Stiles

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work.

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.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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

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.