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
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 sayings from Havelock Ellis
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
11 wisdom & wit from James Joyce
Romance is everything.
31 more quotes from Gertrude Stein
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
7 thoughts from Gloria Swanson
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
81 views 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 quotes from Bette Davis
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 sayings from William Butler Yeats
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 wisdom & wit from Igor Stravinsky
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
8 quotes from Paul Lynde
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
14 other sayings from Andre Maurois
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
16 more thoughts from Douglas Horton
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 more sayings 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 views 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 views 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 views from Cyril Connolly
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 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 wisdom & wit from Charles Kuralt
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
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 quotes from Bela Lugosi
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
19 other views from John Keats
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
2 more wisdom & wit from Billy Strayhorn
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
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
12 quotes from Gene Tierney
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
26 other sayings from Emily Dickinson
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
7 more views from John Greenleaf Whittier
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
17 more quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 other wisdom & wit from Walter Hagen
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
7 other wisdom & wit from Max Eastman