Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

romance

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

Romance is everything.

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.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

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.