romance
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
7 other quotes from Max Eastman
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
30 more wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
11 other quotes from James Joyce
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
4 wisdom & wit from George Murray
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
Romance is everything.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
7 other wisdom & wit from Gloria Swanson
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
21 other views from Bette Davis
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
28 more sayings from William Butler Yeats
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
8 sayings from Paul Lynde
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.
5 other thoughts from Igor Stravinsky
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
14 wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
16 views from Douglas Horton
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 more quotes from Charles Bukowski
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
2 thoughts from Mary Roberts Rinehart
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
14 other wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 wisdom & wit from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
8 views from Charles Kuralt
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
6 more views from Bela Lugosi
Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
4 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Wolfe
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
19 more views from John Keats
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
5 sayings from Marya Mannes
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
2 thoughts from Billy Strayhorn
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
12 more quotes from Gene Tierney
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
26 other quotes from Emily Dickinson
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 quotes from Walter Hagen
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
17 more quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
7 other quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier