Romance Quotes - page 4

We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication. (Daniel Dennett)
Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women. View quote
Debbie Macomber
This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance. View quote
David Levithan
Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative. View quote
David Nicholls
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention. View quote
Jennifer Weiner
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. View quote
Gena Showalter
That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents. View quote
Dorothy Koomson
There was no romance about the mosquitos, however. View quote
Edward Burnett Tylor
... what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left. View quote
Zoë Heller
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too. View quote
Lisa Gardner
Romance is the poetry of literature. (Suzanne Curchod)
There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them. View quote
Lord Dunsany
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. View quote
Beverly Jones
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. View quote
Billy Graham
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. View quote
June Carter Cash
Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight! View quote
Carolyn Keene
Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled. "With swords,” Kat purred. "It is a romance novel! View quote
P. C. Cast
And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for. View quote
Tom Schulman
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. View quote
Billy Strayhorn
The thing is, I am a loving person. I am super sappy when it comes to romance. But I'm not the Antonio Banderas, swashbuckling, Pierce Brosnan, smooth-talking type. (Dev Patel)
I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that. View quote
Duncan Sheik
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. View quote
Elizabeth Ashley
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. View quote
Erich von Stroheim
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness. View quote
Hedi Slimane