Romance Quotes

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Oscar Wilde)
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Romance is everything. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance. View quote
Helen Rowland
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. View quote
Groucho Marx
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. View quote
Elizabeth Berkley
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. (Charles Kingsley)
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. View quote
Stephen King
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. View quote
William Wordsworth
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' View quote
Helen Fisher
I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure. View quote
Virginia Henley
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. View quote
Daniel Steele
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. View quote
Esther Perel
I actually have a lot of couples coming and telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. (Leslie Caron)
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. View quote
Yeardley Smith
It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range. View quote
John Updike
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe. For all the excitement, however, the search betrays a profound melancholy - a lonely species in a merciless universe anxiously awaits an answering voice amid utter silence. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. View quote
Antonin Scalia