Top 100 Quotes About Romance
#1. Life is replete with comedy, drama, horror, suspense, tragedy, romance, mystery, fantasy and a good dose of fiction. While at times the plot may seem to be lacking, the special effects alone are well worth the price of admission.
Derek R. Audette
#2. Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.
Frederick The Great
#4. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
E. M. Forster
#5. Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."
from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers
Chris Van Allsburg
#6. Life isn't a romance novel. The truth is, the reason romance novels sell so well
the reason why everyone loves them
is because no one's life is actually like that. Everyone WANTS their life to be like that.
Meg Cabot
#7. I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
Lauren Mayberry
#8. In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.
Kate Spade
#9. Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.
Sylvia Day
#10. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
Washington Irving
#11. I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.
David Levithan
#12. Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.
T.R. Wallace
#13. Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.
T.F. Hodge
#14. Life isn't easy. Love isn't easy. Fairy tales are books we read to children. Romance novels are books that make teenagers dream of love and happily ever afters. I'm here to tell you my story. This is my diary. This is my life. This is my truth. You can't make this shit up.
Brenda Novak
#15. The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
Katharine Anthony
#16. In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.
Loretta Chase
#17. Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
Tom Robbins
#18. There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.
Mike Batt
#19. I love historical romance, absolutely love it.
Julie Garwood
#21. 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.
James Lafferty
#22. Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!
James Scott Bell
#23. The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas.
Walter Mosley
#25. You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes ... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience ... you have got to share living before you can find love.
Stan Barstow
#26. Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.
James Nicoll
#27. I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.
Jason Wu
#28. I'm not any kind of girl. I don't need man, but I don't hate romance. I think I'm kinda obsessed with romance, really, which is probably why I'm still single. -Mia
Audrey Carlan
#29. He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor.
Mervyn Peake
#30. I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson
#31. want old fashioned romance; dates, flowers, stolen moments. Not wham-bam, thank you, ma'am.
Willow Brooks
#32. Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
Sarah MacLean
#33. Romance leads to marriage, but love keeps the marriage alive.
Toni Sorenson
#34. Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.
Mariah Nelson
#35. No one ever said you can't have world dominance and a little romance too.
Kathy Bryson
#36. How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
William James
#37. If you put a man in the mindset of romance, his mind will start to create those synapses and he'll start taking charge.
Roberto Hogue
#38. I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.
Jessica Biel
#39. You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump.
I say: 'Attraversiamo.'
Let's cross over.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply
"But I love my books too much to desecrate them like that. I'll settle for my boot.
Maya Banks
#41. Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.
Don McLean
#43. I like old-fashioned romance, when the two people sleep in separate beds but still hold hands all night. Their hands rest on a little table between the beds.
Kaley Cuoco
#44. Science, as a rule beneficent, has given birth to potentialities of crime which exceed the dreams of oriental romance.
Robert Barr
#45. With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.
Kealan Patrick Burke
#46. Act upon your love ... Breathe romance back into your relationship ... Let your enthusiasm break the monotony ... You deserve a love that is alive ... Bring it to life!
Steve Maraboli
#47. Roses are red / Gender is performative / Mass-market romance / Is heteronormative
Stefanie Gray
#48. Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#49. To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
George Bernard Shaw
#50. I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness.
(Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013)
Nalini Singh
#52. In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.
Walter Isaacson
#53. When the emotion of romance is added to those of love and sex, the obstructions between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence are removed.
Napoleon Hill
#54. There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
Oscar Wilde
#55. If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.
Karen Marie Moning
#56. I'm with someone who makes me incredibly happy. I'm not one of those people who subscribes to the idea that marriage takes the romance out of things. I think it gets better, it deepens. I love being a wife. We have a blast.
Emily Blunt
#57. Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.
Tim Campbell
#58. By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision
Hugo Gernsback
#60. Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
#62. I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.
Amy E. Spiegel
#63. Last time I looked, I didn't have a pussy, so cut all the romantic shit"
"babe, if that's romance to you, you've been with guys who've been doing it wrong. Really goddamned wrong
S.E. Jakes
#64. I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I WANT IT ALL
Barbra Streisand
#65. When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
Nat Wolff
#66. But it wasn't a sentimental romance. It was more like a battered estate wagon in which they bounced along together, sometimes cheerfully amused by the same joke, other times grimly tolerating one another and determined to get where they were going.
William Kuhn
#67. Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#68. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...
Ann Brashares
#69. I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#70. Only in the camp less than twenty four hours and I was wrapped in an almost romance and a web of deceit. Lovely.
Lila Felix
#71. There are a lot of snobs out there who disregard these books (romance novels), but they fulfil a need. I am happy and fulfilled in what I am doing and readers love them. And why not? They are harmless and they are fun.
Sara Craven
#72. It's no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it.
Tom Robbins
#73. Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.
Booth Tarkington
#74. I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
Glen Cook
#75. Who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music, who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts
Allen Ginsberg
#76. When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.
Julia Quinn
#77. When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. And one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde
Ashton Cartwright
#78. The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love.
Joshua Harris
#79. There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.
Lord Dunsany
#80. I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.
Nicholas Sparks
#81. 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.
Anthony Trollope
#82. We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.
Sherry Turkle
#83. Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance. On
James Joyce
#84. Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#85. As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
Patrick Stewart
#86. I chose to write the kind of romance I love best - one with a sheikh hero.
Penny Jordan
#87. Now I was truly offended. "I don't read romance novels," I hissed, "I read gay fiction.
Nick Pageant
#88. This sizzling menage romance series is the hottest book you'll have read in a really long time!
Scarlett Avery
#89. As a rule, romance is not a place you can find on a map. But sometimes it is.
Vivian Swift
#90. It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin, romance bloom and friendship last.
John Mariani
#91. Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It's not necessarily about falling in love.
Seamus Dever
#93. For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
Nancy Kress
#94. I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.
Charles Kuralt
#95. Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
Joanna Lumley
#96. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)
Gilbert Highet
#97. Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.
Debbie Macomber
#98. Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill?
Beth Moore
#99. There's no romance in geometry," Lindsey answered.
"Just you wait.
John Green
#100. At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn, sweet song. (I know now that it was Beethoven's Romance in F.) I listened, and suddenly it was as if the fog that surrounded me had been penetrated, as if I were being spoken to.
Jennifer Paynter
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