Romantic Quotes

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. (André Maurois)
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic. View quote
Johnny Depp
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. View quote
Ben Affleck
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. (L'Express newspaper 2000) View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. View quote
David McCallum
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. (Norman Mailer)
I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one. View quote
Glenn Beck
This solution has great superficial appeal--all the excitement of secret, forbidden, romantic sexuality without family responsibility and family grubbiness. View quote
Benjamin Spock
Love at first sight I absolutely believe in it You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life It's very romantic. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. View quote
William Butler Yeats
I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively. View quote
Dilma Rousseff
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. View quote
Tomas Tranströmer
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. View quote
Buchi Emecheta
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. View quote
Mindy Kaling
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. View quote
Mindy Kaling