19th Century Romantic Quotes

#1. I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.

John Banville

#2. O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

Penelope Ann Miller

#4. Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

Mark Hart

#5. I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

Romola Garai

#6. There was something terribly sexy about a man who was competent in the kitchen.

Brenda Gayle

#7. Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Hedi Slimane

#8. It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

ASAP Rocky

#9. There is no fear in faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.

Deepak Chopra

#11. One thing was certain: he was my one. Most people go on their whole lives and never find their one, but I found mine. I found him when I was twelve-years-old.

Jennifer Edlund

#12. E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Michael Sims

#13. There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.

Twyla Tharp

#14. I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

Langhorne Slim

#15. Corporate governance is a huge issue too. We don't have women on these corporate boards. More than half of the students in law school are women, more than half of the women, I think, in medical school now are women.

Claire McCaskill

#16. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.

Charles Dickens

#18. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.

Tim Gunn