Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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.

Neil Strauss

Attraction is not an option.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Romance is always young.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

George Canning

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

Gerard Way

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

Rick Riordan

Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?

Edward Burnett Tylor

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Jonah Hill

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