Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Raleigh

Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

Jonathan Swift

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Leonardo DiCaprio

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Maggie Stiefvater

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Caroline B. Cooney

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Satoru Iwata

There would be no paperbacks, no romance novels, no magazines.

Diane Ackerman

hope and uncertainty [are] the twin ingredients necessary for romance to thrive. ... Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope, or fails as often, as love.

Craig Ferguson

Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

Emma Goldman

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

Hugo Chavez

Your triumph is the triumph of all of Venezuela,

George Eliot

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

Iris Murdoch

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Abraham Cowley

Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Sandra Bernhard

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Barack Obama

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Yannick Noah

Cynicism is not a good energy for me.

John Fowles

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

Joe Klein

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Daragh Maher

There's a justifiable degree of cynicism about the new coalition. People are unsure about what it will deliver in terms of economic reforms.

Mason Cooley

Cynicism has its own zealots.

Najam Sethi

Given the normal cynicism of Pakistanis, something like this has never happened. I think the scale of the disaster is something that has touched everyone to the core.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing