Quotes about Romance

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Votes: 5

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Votes: 4

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Votes: 4

Romance is everything. Votes: 3

Romance is always young. Votes: 3

Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs. Votes: 3

Romance is the poetry of literature. Votes: 3

Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie, Votes: 3

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. Votes: 3

Romance at short notice was her speciality. Votes: 3

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it. Votes: 3

Romance is a different word than sexual contact. Votes: 3

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P Votes: 3

Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment. Votes: 3

Romance her, enhance her, desire her, put her first. Votes: 3

Romance is the icing but love is the cake. Votes: 3

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings. Votes: 3

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. Votes: 3

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience Votes: 3

Romance is all about making a story out of our love Votes: 3

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it. Votes: 3

Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control. Votes: 3

Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing. Votes: 3

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Votes: 3

I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. Votes: 3

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. Votes: 3

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live. Votes: 3

I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance. Votes: 3

Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men. Votes: 3

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. Votes: 3

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. Votes: 3

Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance. Votes: 3

Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Votes: 3

Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight! Votes: 3

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart. Votes: 3

Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary. Votes: 3

Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love Votes: 3

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. Votes: 3

A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps. Votes: 3

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! Votes: 3

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. Votes: 3

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. Votes: 3

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury… Votes: 3

If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section. Votes: 3

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women. Votes: 3

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Votes: 3

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself. Votes: 3

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. Votes: 3

Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you're dating Robert Pattinson, you're screwed. Votes: 3

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. Votes: 3

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. Votes: 3

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called "˜erotika pathemata' by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering. Votes: 3

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment. Votes: 3

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. Votes: 3

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. Votes: 3

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday. Votes: 3

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. Votes: 3

Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you. Votes: 3

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. Votes: 3

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. Votes: 3

Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age. Votes: 3

Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. Votes: 3

How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance? Votes: 3

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Votes: 3

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. Votes: 3

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. Votes: 3

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way. Votes: 3

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Votes: 3

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. Votes: 3

Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..! Votes: 3

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not? Votes: 3

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin. Votes: 3

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. Votes: 3

Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important. Votes: 3

Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need. Votes: 3

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. Votes: 3

I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man. Votes: 3

I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My soul will find yours. Votes: 2

Love is an act of faith. Votes: 2

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Votes: 2

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. Votes: 2

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Votes: 2

You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful. Votes: 2

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. Votes: 2

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. Votes: 2

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Votes: 2

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Votes: 2

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Votes: 2

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. Votes: 2

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Votes: 2

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. Votes: 2

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. Votes: 2

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. Votes: 2

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. Votes: 2

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. Votes: 2

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Votes: 2

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Votes: 2

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Votes: 2

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. Votes: 2

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Votes: 1

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Votes: 1

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Votes: 1

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex. Votes: 1

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Votes: 1

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. Votes: 1

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. Votes: 1

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? Votes: 1

My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. Votes: 1

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance. Votes: 1

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. Votes: 1

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. Votes: 1

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. Votes: 1

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. Votes: 1

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. Votes: 1

Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. Votes: 1

I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then. Votes: 1

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Votes: 1

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. Votes: 1

There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The archetype comes in many disguises - the wallflower, the spinster, the governess, the single mom - but always with one sad claim: Love is not in her cards. Votes: 1

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. Votes: 1

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings. Votes: 1

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.' Votes: 1

I don't write romance novels. Votes: 0

Spiritual connection does not mean romance Votes: 0

There's no good story without romance. Votes: 0

A fantabulous night to make romance. Votes: 0

Life has no romance without risk. Votes: 0

I'm not real good at romance. Votes: 0

Every book should have a romance. Votes: 0

I was talking cannibalism, not romance. Votes: 0

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance. Votes: 0

I love historical romance, absolutely love it. Votes: 0

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Votes: 0

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. Votes: 0

We all know interspecies romance is weird. Votes: 0

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. Votes: 0

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial. Votes: 0

Every romance does not lead to sex. Votes: 0

There is only one romance the Soul's. Votes: 0

common sense is the enemy of romance Votes: 0

You take romance - I'll take Jell-O. Votes: 0

One is never too old for romance. Votes: 0

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Votes: 0

Our love is the reason romance was created. Votes: 0

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations. Votes: 0

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. Votes: 0

Love and romance are things worth waiting for. Votes: 0

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however. Votes: 0

It's not a romance, it's a love story. Votes: 0

Life should imitate romance literature far more often. Votes: 0

The realism of failure, the romance of success. Votes: 0

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. Votes: 0

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. Votes: 0

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal. Votes: 0

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance. Votes: 0

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. Votes: 0

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters. Votes: 0

I write romance because I love to read romance. Votes: 0

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. Votes: 0

A relationship to me is never about the romance. Votes: 0

There are flaws in romance but love is perfect. Votes: 0

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for. Votes: 0

I totally believe in romance and love and all that. Votes: 0

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint. Votes: 0

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last. Votes: 0

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. Votes: 0

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life. Votes: 0

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Votes: 0

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance Votes: 0

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men. Votes: 0

I find it difficult to see the romance in digital. Votes: 0

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. Votes: 0

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome. Votes: 0

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome. Votes: 0

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott. Votes: 0

Mist of the lust-for-life obnubilates the mirror, romance is reflected on. Votes: 0

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance. Votes: 0

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. Votes: 0

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up. Votes: 0

I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance. Votes: 0

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction. Votes: 0

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance." Votes: 0

Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance. Votes: 0

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner! Votes: 0

I have a low taste for urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Votes: 0

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. Votes: 0

In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing. Votes: 0

keeping a balance with soul - is a romance with self Votes: 0

I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance. Votes: 0

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. Votes: 0

I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work. Votes: 0

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. Votes: 0

My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon. Votes: 0

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Votes: 0

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization. Votes: 0

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 0

Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner. Votes: 0

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories. Votes: 0

Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance. Votes: 0

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels. Votes: 0

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past Votes: 0

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. Votes: 0

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. Votes: 0

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it. Votes: 0

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. Votes: 0

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery! Votes: 0

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. Votes: 0

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. Votes: 0

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve. Votes: 0

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. Votes: 0

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance. Votes: 0

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. Votes: 0

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. Votes: 0

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance? Votes: 0

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit! Votes: 0

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. Votes: 0

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance. Votes: 0

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. Votes: 0

The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ. Votes: 0

The most cherished goal in physics, as in bad romance novels, is unification. Votes: 0

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting. Votes: 0

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us. Votes: 0

My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’ Votes: 0

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story. Votes: 0

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that. Votes: 0

All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example. Votes: 0

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there. Votes: 0

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age. Votes: 0

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman Votes: 0

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror. Votes: 0

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance. Votes: 0

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. Votes: 0

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. Votes: 0

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance. Votes: 0

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. Votes: 0

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. Votes: 0

Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive. Votes: 0

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life. Votes: 0

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. Votes: 0

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid. Votes: 0

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Votes: 0

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. Votes: 0

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. Votes: 0

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period. Votes: 0

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. Votes: 0

Believe that your faith has everything to do with your romance, because it does. Votes: 0

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out. Votes: 0

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. Votes: 0

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. Votes: 0

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. Votes: 0

Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality? Votes: 0

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth. Votes: 0

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time. Votes: 0

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. Votes: 0

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. Votes: 0

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away? Votes: 0

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. Votes: 0

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. Votes: 0

No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! Votes: 0

The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience. Votes: 0

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard. Votes: 0

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. Votes: 0

There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.' Votes: 0

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. Votes: 0

That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak. Votes: 0

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. Votes: 0

Get into the habit of saying, ''Speak, Lord,'' and life will become a romance. Votes: 0

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure. Votes: 0

The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time. Votes: 0

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact. Votes: 0

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling. Votes: 0

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. Votes: 0

I think it doesn't matter where you're from, we all need a bit of romance. Votes: 0

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy. Votes: 0

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore. Votes: 0

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. Votes: 0

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action. Votes: 0

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance. Votes: 0

In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. Votes: 0

Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations. Votes: 0

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion. Votes: 0

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Votes: 0

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. Votes: 0

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. Votes: 0

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish. Votes: 0

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue. Votes: 0

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. Votes: 0

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. Votes: 0

In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt Votes: 0

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context. Votes: 0

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety. Votes: 0

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. Votes: 0

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! Votes: 0

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music. Votes: 0

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left. Votes: 0

As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers! Votes: 0

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. Votes: 0

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. Votes: 0

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age. Votes: 0

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. Votes: 0

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. Votes: 0

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination. Votes: 0

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.. Votes: 0

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you. Votes: 0

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel. Votes: 0

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance. Votes: 0

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. Votes: 0

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it. Votes: 0

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it. Votes: 0

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire. Votes: 0

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. Votes: 0

One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings. Votes: 0

I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero. Votes: 0

The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance. Votes: 0

This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more. Votes: 0

Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew. Votes: 0

I'm writing my next book under a pseudonym. It will be Mark Twain's best young adult romance." Votes: 0

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love. Votes: 0

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. Votes: 0

Seminaked men!— Jacky trilled. “With swords,— Kat purred. “It is a romance novel! Votes: 0

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. Votes: 0

What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron) Votes: 0

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other. Votes: 0

I know what it's like to pine away for that summer romance you just can't get back. Votes: 0

I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for. Votes: 0

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. Votes: 0

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance. Votes: 0

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? Votes: 0

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican. Votes: 0

I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort. Votes: 0

Flight is romance - not in the sense of sexual attraction, but as an experience that enriches life. Votes: 0

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. Votes: 0

Don't let the romance die, remember one thing that's going right in the sea of things that aren't. Votes: 0

I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting. Votes: 0

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble Votes: 0

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. Votes: 0

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance. Votes: 0

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours. Votes: 0

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. Votes: 0

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance.(Done With Bonaparte) Votes: 0

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me. Votes: 0

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. Votes: 0

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured. Votes: 0

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. Votes: 0

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance Votes: 0

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. Votes: 0

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance! Votes: 0

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. Votes: 0

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy. Votes: 0

We prayed these wars would end all wars --In war we know is no romance."(Done With Bonaparte) Votes: 0

Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another. Votes: 0

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself. Votes: 0

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' Votes: 0

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Votes: 0

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. Votes: 0

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead. Votes: 0

I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side. Votes: 0

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another. Votes: 0

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene. Votes: 0

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance. Votes: 0

Combine a fog machine and a cotton candy maker to create delicious mystery. This is the heart of romance. Votes: 0

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies. Votes: 0

I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities. Votes: 0

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom. Votes: 0

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' Votes: 0

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys. Votes: 0

No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do, Votes: 0

I was 9 when I wrote 'Fate Stay with Me.' It was this fictional song about romance gone wrong. Votes: 0

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Votes: 0

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers. Votes: 0

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life. Votes: 0

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men! Votes: 0

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. Votes: 0

All romances end in tragedy. One of the key people in a romance becomes a monster sooner or later. Votes: 0

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? Votes: 0

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance. Votes: 0

Coffee is cheap, drinks are an audition, lunch is an interview, but dinner means business; the business of romance. Votes: 0

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. Votes: 0

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second. Votes: 0

I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there. Votes: 0

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance. Votes: 0

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. Votes: 0

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Votes: 0

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. Votes: 0

She plants love, and she grows roses. The fragrance of romance comes from the blossom that blooms in the heart. Votes: 0

I still weave dreams, finding inspiration wherever I can and looking for romance in the real, not the digital, world Votes: 0

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something. Votes: 0

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you. Votes: 0

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. Votes: 0

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet. Votes: 0

Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. Votes: 0

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance. Votes: 0

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. Votes: 0

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance. Votes: 0

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. Votes: 0

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury. Votes: 0

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A. Votes: 0

Our romance became a key strategy for our survival in the arena. Only it wasn't just a strategy for Peeta. Votes: 0

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years. Votes: 0

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince. Votes: 0

The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. Votes: 0

It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'. Votes: 0

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. Votes: 0

That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents. Votes: 0

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts. Votes: 0

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance. Votes: 0

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one. Votes: 0

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one's perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that's the trick. Votes: 0

I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. Votes: 0

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. Votes: 0

The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time. Votes: 0

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward. Votes: 0

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. Votes: 0

Thus, she had learned a romance book was fiction. A hero who truly cared for the heroine was called a fantasy. Votes: 0

What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance! Votes: 0

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance. Votes: 0

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. Votes: 0

I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance. Votes: 0

Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field. Votes: 0

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance. Votes: 0

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. Votes: 0

In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body. Votes: 0

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. Votes: 0

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes Votes: 0

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible. Votes: 0

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. Votes: 0

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance. Votes: 0

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance. Votes: 0

I always just loved women, but more important than loving women, more important than sexual stuff, is I always believed in romance. Votes: 0

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. Votes: 0

That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections. Votes: 0

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place. Votes: 0

The roses of romance grow when you water your relationship with gratitude. Love will bloom and blossom when you recognize the awesome. Votes: 0

Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded. Votes: 0

I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids etc. Love never ends, na? Votes: 0

Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships. Votes: 0

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male. Votes: 0

Love is a great emotion, but I believe its not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships. Votes: 0

I’ve never seen a man go after a woman like that. Holy sh*t, it’s like porn with the romance. Votes: 0

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. Votes: 0

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it. Votes: 0

I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writing style has changed. Votes: 0

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance? Votes: 0

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation. Votes: 0

I'm not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don't need a romance to complete a story about a woman Votes: 0

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure." Votes: 0

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop. Votes: 0

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty. Votes: 0

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Votes: 0

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Votes: 0

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Votes: 0

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it. Votes: 0

Relationship Principle 1 In romance, there's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is. Votes: 0

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. Votes: 0

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks? Votes: 0

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen. Votes: 0

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. Votes: 0

I am forever a romantic. I try to bring that into my work. I try not to be fooled by romance. Or work. Votes: 0

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. Votes: 0

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. Votes: 0

There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Votes: 0

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. Votes: 0

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. Votes: 0

The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you. Votes: 0

Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God! Votes: 0

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it. Votes: 0

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance. Votes: 0

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. Votes: 0

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies. Votes: 0

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion. Votes: 0

Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. Votes: 0

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Votes: 0

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. Votes: 0

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones. Votes: 0

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. Votes: 0

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later. Votes: 0

Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. Votes: 0

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. Votes: 0

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies. Votes: 0

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work. Votes: 0

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making. Votes: 0

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore. Votes: 0

Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It bears his signature. Votes: 0

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. Votes: 0

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month. Votes: 0

Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show. Votes: 0

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you. Votes: 0

I was doing what I thought I had to do. There was romance in the idea of being married. It was just the wrong reasons. Votes: 0

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped. Votes: 0

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance? Votes: 0

I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer. Votes: 0

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life. Votes: 0

I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free. Votes: 0

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there. Votes: 0

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced. Votes: 0

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me. Votes: 0