Sayings about Romance
Romance– without finance- don’t stand a chance. ~ African-American Proverbs
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. ~ Anita Brookner
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~ Elinor Glyn
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second. ~ Nicholas Sparks
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. ~ Thomas Carlyle
You must begin your pursuit of real romance by understanding that romance is a choice. Romance is an attitude. Romance is a commitment to a healthy relationship. ~ Jeffrey Bernstein & Susan Magee
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
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 must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ~ Oscar Wilde
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Romance is the literature of hope. ~ Damon Suede
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. ~ Samuel Richardson
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation, which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ~ Kate Millet
People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music. ~ Susannah McCorkle
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ~ Author Unknown
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
I could walk forever and a mile with one beautiful girl. ~ A.C. Van Cherub
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~ William Shakespeare
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. ~ Billy Strayhorn
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us. ~ Umberto Eco
A lot of people like the idea of eternal love and eternal romance. The notion of love that is more profound and deeper because it is eternal is very powerful. ~ James Patterson
Make memories together. That should be what romance is all about, rather than grinding on some stranger in Bridge on a Thursday night. ~ Huw Pid
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Romance is the grand illusion by which most women and men live, whether or not they consciously know it. ~ Patricia Mellencamp
Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde
Romance is everything. ~ Gertrude Stein
There will always be romance in the world, so long as there are young hearts in it. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Romance is like fireworks in the dark night, thrilling but inevitably transitory. We are lucky if we can simply get along. ~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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. ~ Marilyn Monroe
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ~ Anita Brookner
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view? ~ Arsene Houssaye
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. ~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. ~ Oscar Wilde
In the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there. ~ Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. ~ Zig Ziglar
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. ~ Oscar Wilde
Romance is the poetry of literature. ~ Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. ~ Billy Graham
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ~ George William Curtis
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. ~ Beverly Jones
My romance doesn’t need a thing but you. ~ Ella Fitzgerald
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. ~ Danielle Steel
I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming. ~ Kristen Stewart
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time. ~ D. H. Lawrence
The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. ~ Glen Cook
I’m drawn to bad romances. ~ Lady Gaga
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. ~ Sarah MacLean
What’s the difference between the music of my generation and todays? Our songs were about Love and Romance, today’s music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. ~ David A. Vigilanti
Pink is the color of romance and a friend tells me that the girl with the pink dress at the party is the one who is selected for each dance. ~ Alfred Carl Hottes
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~ Bernard Williams
A true man doesn’t need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life. ~ Author Unknown
I’m a romantic — a sentimental person thinks things will last — a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. ~ English Saying
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art — that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ~ Charles Baudelaire
Romance is always young. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance — the idea that anything is possible.~ Ray Bradbury
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~ John Milton
Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart – when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won’t work out. It’s ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. ~ Rachael Taylor
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice. ~ Matthew Underwood
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. ~ Nicholas Sparks
Romance is a kind of journey, one that cannot be set in a single point in time. It grows, it changes, and it deepens and widens over time. ~ Donald Baack & Pamela Baack
Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ~ George William Curtis
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured. ~ Nora Roberts
Romance is a fragile and endangered condition. ~ Stephen A. Mitchell
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ~ Oscar Wilde
In this commonplace world, everyone is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one. ~ Alexander Pope
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man’s last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ~ Elizabeth Ashley
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ~ W. H. Auden
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. ~ Charlie Chaplin
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss. ~ Oliver Goldsmith