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
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
12 thoughts from Gene Tierney
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
2 views from Billy Strayhorn
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
7 wisdom & wit 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.
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
26 views from Emily Dickinson
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 sayings from Walter Hagen
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
7 sayings 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 sayings from Virginia Woolf
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
11 thoughts 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 more wisdom & wit from George Murray
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
Romance is everything.
31 other thoughts from Gertrude Stein
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
7 quotes from Gloria Swanson
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
11 sayings from Charlie Chaplin
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 wisdom & wit 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 views from William Butler Yeats
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
8 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 thoughts from Igor Stravinsky
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
16 more thoughts 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
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 other wisdom & wit 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
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 sayings 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 other 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 more quotes from Charles Kuralt
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 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
6 more wisdom & wit from Bela Lugosi
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
19 quotes from John Keats
Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
4 more sayings from Thomas Wolfe