Quotes on Romance

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Author: Dorothy Allison

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

Author: Kevin Anderson

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

Author: Adam Arkin

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Author: Elizabeth Ashley

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

Author: Thora Birch

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Author: Barbara Cartland

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.

Author: June Cash

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Author: Anita Desai

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

Author: Aaron Eckhart

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

Author: Richard Gallienne

For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.

Author: Ryan Gosling

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Author: Billy Graham

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

Author: David Guterson

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.

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

Author: John Hughes

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.

Author: Beverly Jones

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Author: Stephen King

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

Author: James Lafferty

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

Author: Patton Oswalt

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Author: Anna Quindlen

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.

Author: Kathleen Quinlan

I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

Author: Nora Roberts

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

Author: Nora Roberts

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.

Author: 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.

Author: George Saintsbury

It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous.

Author: Robert Shea

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.

Author: Duncan Sheik

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Author: Yeardley Smith

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Romance is everything.

Author: Gertrude Stein

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Author: Kristen Stewart

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Author: Billy Strayhorn

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Author: Gloria Swanson

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

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

Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

Author: Anthony Trollope

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Author: Edward Tylor

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

Author: Gerard Way

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Author: John Whittier

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Author: Oscar Wilde

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Author: Oscar Wilde

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

Author: Bern Williams

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people.

Author: Joe Williams

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Love is the greatest adventure we can ever embark on, leading us to uncharted territories of the heart and soul.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt away even the hardest of hearts.

Author: Sophia Anderson

Flower petals whisper mysteries known only to the heart.

Author: Jasmine Bloom

Love is a perpetual flame that warms the heart and lights the way.

Author: Sofia Williams

Love is the only fire that can warm the soul.

Author: Pablo Neruda

Love is the greatest adventure worth embarking on.

Author: Emily May

Love is the greatest adventure of the heart.

Author: Sophia Greene

Love is the greatest adventure you can embark on.

Author: Emily Hunt

Distance is just a test to see how far love can travel.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Dream like a poet, work like an architect, and love like a painter.

Author: Sofia Garcia

In a room full of art, I'd still stare at you.

Author: Maria Lopez

Love easily finds its way through the toughest barriers of the heart.

Author: Sofia Parker

Love is the greatest journey your heart will ever embark upon.

Author: Maya Johnson

In the silence of the night, poetry blooms like a midnight flower, entwining hearts with its fragrant words.

Author: Sofia James

True love is the greatest adventure you'll ever embark on

Author: Sarah Mitchell

Bling-bling goes my heart while love sings

Author: Beyonce Knowles

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Do I believe in love at first sight? Absolutely, I fall in love with every pasta dish I see.

Author: Carlo Cucina

You must be the cheesy wonder melter, for you just made my heart into fondue with that smile.

Author: Judy Elaine