“ What's the difference between the music of my generation and todays? Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. ”
- David A. Vigilanti- Copy
- 333
“ You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
- 4K
“ The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation, which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is pardoned for sexual activity. ”
- Kate Millet- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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. ”
- Beverly Jones- Copy
- 790
“ Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”
- George William Curtis- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ”
- Leni Riefenstahl- Copy
- 663
“ I'm a romantic — a sentimental person thinks things will last — a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 131
“ He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as ''Lover's Lane.''. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as "Lover's Lane.". ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 533
“ The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ”
- Anita Brookner- Copy
- 1.6K
“ And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. ”
- Anita Brookner- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. ”
- Cecilia Egan- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
- 3.8K
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