romance
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 views 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 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 other thoughts from Cyril Connolly
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
14 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
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 more quotes from Charles Kuralt
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 views from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
19 quotes from John Keats
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
6 more sayings from Bela Lugosi
Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
4 quotes from Thomas Wolfe
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
5 quotes from Marya Mannes
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
2 views from Billy Strayhorn
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
12 other sayings from Gene Tierney
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 sayings from Walter Hagen
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
26 more sayings from Emily Dickinson
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 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
7 more 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 sayings from Virginia Woolf
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
11 sayings from James Joyce
Romance is everything.
31 more views from Gertrude Stein
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 quotes from George Murray
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
7 thoughts from Gloria Swanson
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
21 thoughts from Bette Davis
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
8 more quotes 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 sayings from Igor Stravinsky
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 views from William Butler Yeats
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
14 wisdom & wit from Andre Maurois