Romance Quotes

"They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever."
-Oscar Wilde

"But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?"
-John Buchan

"I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies."
-Pietro Aretino

"A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts."
-Barbara Cartland

"When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws."
-Joni Mitchell

"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."
-Jennifer Love Hewitt

"In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people."
-Judy Garland

"Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings."
-Walter Raleigh, Sr.

"In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes."
-Elizabeth Ashley

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
-Oscar Wilde

"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
-Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-Oscar Wilde

"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
-Matt Groening

"Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless."
-Honore De Balzac

"Therapy was the biggest romance of my life."
-Dar Williams

"All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that."
-Diana Gabaldon

"History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed."
-Horace Walpole

"Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth."
-Theodore Reik

"He'll have a hand in turning Clark against Lex. He's going to have a romance with Lois and he teaches Clark more about the global responsibilities of having superpowers."
-Al Gough

"Gene and I just fell in love with the stories of these characters and the romance of these super-powered outlaw stations."
-Bill Crawford

"A lot of the romance of the West is in here."
-Allen Tucker

"One of the areas that I think we can do a better job of selling is the customer experience overall. I think we can make it more evocative and we can make there be a stronger emotional connection and romance the products better than we are now."
-Carter Cast

"Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage."
-Muriel Fox

"I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us."
-Nia Vardalos

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

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
-Charlie Chaplin

"For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out."
-Ryan Gosling

"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."
-John Greenleaf Whittier