Romance Quotes - page 2

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first than the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it. (John S. Mosby)
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. View quote
David Guterson
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner! View quote
Ayn Rand
I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means. View quote
Adam Sandler
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold. View quote
Francis Parkman
Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. View quote
Nora Roberts
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? View quote
Cassandra Clare
This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can't treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I'm old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority. (Tom Hiddleston)
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - And must I lose a soul's inheritance? View quote
Oscar Wilde
When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Romance at short notice was her speciality. View quote
Saki
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. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead. View quote
John Buchan
This Knight was indeede a valiant Gent: but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himselfe. View quote
John Evelyn
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. (Katherine Dunn)
The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. View quote
Walther von der Vogelweide
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. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. View quote
Lytton Strachey