Top 100 Romance Is Quotes
#1. Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love
Donell Jones
#2. When I'm writing, the romance is always the most important thing to me, but I really love adding in slices of real life, and for me that real life always includes animals.
Jill Shalvis
#3. Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
Jodi Picoult
#4. One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance novel ends happily ever after, don't the stories lack complexity? Don't the readers get bored?
Sarah MacLean
#5. My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.
Marc Anthony
#6. What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen
Belinda Jones
#7. Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.
Donny Osmond
#8. Romance is all about making a story out of our love
Joey Comeau
#9. The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,' and I really don't like that. There's enough misery and bad things happening in the world.
Ruth Glick
#10. We all know interspecies romance is weird.
Tim Burton
#11. Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it's something that's very natural to care about - it's a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it's a significant emotional choice people make.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#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. 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
#15. Roses are red / Gender is performative / Mass-market romance / Is heteronormative
Stefanie Gray
#16. 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
#17. As a rule, romance is not a place you can find on a map. But sometimes it is.
Vivian Swift
#18. Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Nicholas Sparks
#19. 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
#21. I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.
Glen Cook
#22. When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
Nat Wolff
#23. 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
#24. Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come.
Tim Campbell
#26. Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
Matthew Pearl
#27. But I remain with Rennie because she too is stubborn, because love requires us to stubbornly imperil each other, to demand that which can't be given and to go on demanding it. Every romance is a war of philosophies; the stakes are the romance itself. And if one person wins, it's all over.
Robert Cohen
#28. Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove.
Lisi Harrison
#29. A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.
Melissa Pritchard
#30. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
#31. I never use the word 'sex' in my novels - that is not what romance is about. It's about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending - the perfect finish to any romance.
Jean S. MacLeod
#32. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
#33. I think true romance is dry schizophrenic ... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.
Charli XCX
#34. Romance is at the heart of our lives. The truly blessed among us find a hero or heroine of our own to love, then root for our children to do the same.
M.A. Jewell
#35. Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you're dating Robert Pattinson, you're screwed.
Stana Katic
#36. Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
E.F. Benson
#37. The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
Alan Kay
#38. As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don't typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel - romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies ... well ... babies are complicated.
Sarah MacLean
#39. Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..!
Himmilicious
#40. Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age.
Kim Alexis
#41. I think romance is harder in the digital or postdigital age or whatever we're supposed to call it. Love is harder.
Kate Klise
#42. Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
Orlando Bloom
#44. I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
Quentin Tarantino
#45. That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.
Ville Valo
#47. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
Archibald Hill
#48. I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.
Booth Tarkington
#50. Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale.
Debasish Mridha
#51. You trying to sweep me off my feet?" Kelly asked, a little breathless.
Nick grinned. "No. But I am going to take you up on that sloppy blowjob you offered."
Kelly cackled as Nick dragged him inside. "Who says romance is dead?
Abigail Roux
#52. The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.
Deanna Raybourn
#54. My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.
Gerard Way
#55. The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.
Madeline Hunter
#57. I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
Pamela Anderson
#58. Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap.
China Mieville
#61. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Irving Stone
#62. Romance
Make eye contact.
Show your form.
Strut.
Grunt.
Throw a stick.
Grunt some more.
Make some moves.
Romance is hard work.
It looks easy on TV.
I'm not sure I will ever get the hang of it.
Katherine Applegate
#63. Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley
#64. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. (Algernon in The Importance of Being Ernest)
Oscar Wilde
#65. Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.
Jeanette Winterson
#66. I know people think erotica is just a romance novel with rougher sex. It's not. If it's a subgenre of anything, it's horror.
Horror? Really?
Romance is sex plus love. Erotica is sex plus fear.
Tiffany Reisz
#67. 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.
Jonathan Swift
#68. Romance is when after two people have gone through thick and thin together, and have confirmed to become a love that will never change no matter what happens.
Jaejoong
#69. Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
George Edward Woodberry
#70. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
Dean Cavanagh
#71. Now...get naked." Quinn grinned and pulled Mhisery to her feet.
Mhisery rolled her eyes as he pulled her to her feet.
"Who says romance is dead. Not even married yet, and all I get is, get naked.
Alex Morgan
#72. Romance is a lie that gives people an excuse to act like fools and later blame it on the one whom they had bestowed their supposed love upon.
Quinn Loftis
#73. Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
Gregory J. P. Godek
#74. I've had three husbands, but my real romance is my work.
Hattie Carnegie
#75. Romance is showing my new husband the places and things that mean the most to me.
I can't help it if some of those places and things are in France.
Vivian Swift
#76. There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.
Richard Jeni
#77. Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.
Andy Warhol
#78. When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.
Fran Lebowitz
#79. My idea of romance is a guy who will take me to see an Avengers film and doesn't mind dressing up like Loki afterwards.
Karina Halle
#80. One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
Nicola Cornick
#81. I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more
Donald Barthelme
#82. Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Richard Le Gallienne
#83. The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.
Scott Westerfeld
#84. The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.
Jamaica Kincaid
#85. If you live in your sense, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you'll never need a greeting card to make you remember.
Erica Bauermeister
#86. But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You're sharp and you've got pluck. Don't waste it.
William Ritter
#87. The whole point about 'romance' is that the woman is somehow always smaller, more diminutive in a cute sort of way, while the man is adult.
Nivedita Menon
#88. 'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.
Chuck Palahniuk
#89. Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Walter Raleigh
#90. Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#91. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
Kristen Stewart
#93. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#94. Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.
Margaret Atwood
#95. The real aim of romance is to provide escape and entertainment.
Violet Winspear
#96. I've got a sleeping bag in the car." "You're getting me to spend the night on the beach with you." "I told you. I'm very romantic." Standing, Fletch brushed the sand off his skin. "And I told you romance is dead." "That's just wishful thinking," Fletch said. "I'll get the sleeping bag.
Anonymous
#98. The Great Romance is for you. If only one of you would have followed me, the heavens would not have been able to contain my cries of joy.
Ted Dekker
#99. Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
G.K. Chesterton
#100. My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back, "I think that love is my favorite thing in this whole world ... " Me too, Zoe, me too.
SARK
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