Famous Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the romance of the West is in here.

Gerard Way

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Greta Gerwig

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

Jamaica Kincaid

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

Jamaica Kincaid

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

Horace Walpole

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Jean M. Auel

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

George Canning

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

George Strait

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Jen Kirkman

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.

George Saintsbury

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

George Saintsbury

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Jean Reno

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

Keith Lockhart

The Rachmaninoff is just one of the most glorious, over-the-top, beautiful, Romantic statements ever.

Michelle Trachtenberg

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Nora Roberts

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

Nora Roberts

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Nora Roberts

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

Morris Chestnut

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Seth Gabel

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Oscar Wilde

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Marianne Williamson

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

Mason Cooley

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

Neil Gaiman

It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.

Melissa Marr

As a lifelong romance reader, its always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!

Lafcadio Hearn

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.

Oscar Wilde

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

Oscar Wilde

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Oscar Wilde

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Oscar Wilde

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Patton Oswalt

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.