Unromantic Quotes

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

Oscar Wilde

#2. Who've you set up for me tonight?"
"Set up," Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. "What an unromantic phrase."
"Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on?"
"It's still unromantic when you're smirking.

Nora Roberts

#3. For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters in a Vegas casino.

Richard Russo

#4. Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.

Jemima Khan

#5. It is futile to advance the argument that glasses are unromantic. They are not. I know, because I wear them myself, and I am a singularly romantic figure, whether in my rimless, my Oxford gold-bordered, or the plain gent's spectacles which I wear in the privacy of my study.

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

Sheryl Lee

#7. But a sweater? I mean,that is so unromantic.It is the kind of thing I would get my dad - if he wasn't so in need of anger-management manuals,which is what I got for him for Christmas.

Meg Cabot

#8. However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.

Barbara Pym

#9. The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

Nick Blaemire

#10. In a few short weeks, mock-marital status had ceased to be something to aspire to, and had become a cause for scorn. At seventeen, we were becoming as embittered and as unromantic as our parents.

Nick Hornby

#11. I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

Celia Imrie

#12. I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it.

Isaac Asimov

#15. Be warned, then: the collected volumes of this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic sort, and a plenitude of mud.

Marie Brennan

#16. A writer's knowledge of himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt of it properly directed will bring a character to life.

Graham Greene

#17. Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together is a sign of incredible trust and financial openness - you're fooling yourself if you think you can achieve complete intimacy without it.

Suze Orman

#18. I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

Estelle Ramey

#19. I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

Les Dawson

#20. I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

Martin Freeman

#21. An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

Henrik Ibsen

#22. Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Sherry Thomas

#23. diseases of an unromantic sort,

Marie Brennan

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

Jamaica Kincaid

#25. A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him. She

Georgette Heyer

#26. The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald - or Arthur - or whatever his name was - had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.

Agatha Christie

#27. I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was.

Craig Venter

#28. They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure
of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.

Jill Conner Browne

#29. Nobody who is afraid of laughing, and heartily too, at his friend, can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.

Augustus William Hare

#30. Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

Immanuel Kant

#32. The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

Peter Senge

#33. With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hunter S. Thompson