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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. -- Oscar Wilde
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. -- Mason Cooley
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. -- Elinor Glyn
Romance is everything. -- Gertrude Stein
Romance is always young. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs. -- T.F. Hodge
Romance is the poetry of literature. -- Suzanne Curchod
Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie, -- David Berman
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. -- Billy Strayhorn
Romance at short notice was her speciality. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it. -- Ronald D. Moore
Romance is a different word than sexual contact. -- Bill Cosby
Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P -- Oscar Wilde
Romance makes a radiant sunrise out of every moment. -- Thomas Kinkade
Romance her, enhance her, desire her, put her first. -- Delano Johnson
Romance is the icing but love is the cake. -- Julia Child
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings. -- Walter Raleigh
My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die. -- Gerard Way
Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience -- Joshua Harris
Romance is all about making a story out of our love -- Joey Comeau
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it. -- Andy Warhol
Romance should be spontaneous, but in my career I'm totally in control. -- Madonna Ciccone
Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing. -- Shailene Woodley
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. -- Stephen Colbert
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live. -- Andre Dubus
I'll tell you what I hate - bands like My Chemical Romance. -- Jamie Bell
Romance writers and readers have one thing in common: We love men. -- Teresa Medeiros
Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. -- Marianne Williamson
Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance. -- Suzanne Collins
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Chuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight! -- Carolyn Keene
Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart. -- Wole Soyinka
Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary. -- Edgar Friedenberg
Romance is about love. It's about two people sharing intimate moments expressing that love -- Donell Jones
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps. -- Carolina Herrera
O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song! -- John Keats
In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie. -- Quentin Tarantino
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If you look for me, I'm in the fiction section. Romance has its own section. -- Nicholas Sparks
Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women. -- Debbie Macomber
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. -- Elinor Glyn
Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself. -- Gloria Steinem
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. -- Denis de Rougemont
Romance is diffcult for some celebrities. If the media finds out you're dating Robert Pattinson, you're screwed. -- Stana Katic
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. -- Nicholas Sparks
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. -- Steve Kluger
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Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment. -- Peter Breggin
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. -- Ernest Hemingway
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. -- Nora Roberts
Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday. -- John Denver
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. -- Sally Stanford
Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you. -- Sylvia Day
There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. -- Tony Scott
Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture. -- Bob Dylan
Romance is possible between two people at any age! I love feeling young and acting young as I age. -- Kim Alexis
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. -- Steve Martin
How much Romance do you like in your Fantasy? And, respectively, how much Questing do you like in your Romance? -- Paula Millhouse
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. -- Billy Graham
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments. -- Gregory J. P. Godek
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. -- Melissa Pritchard
Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way. -- Nora Raleigh Baskin
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. -- Yeardley Smith
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre. -- Simone Elkeles
Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..! -- Himmilicious
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not? -- Gloria Estefan
My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin. -- Oscar Levant
And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need. -- Matthew Pearl
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell. -- Anthony Trollope
I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man. -- Ashley Purdy
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies. -- Donita K. Paul
I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love. -- Jennifer Aniston
My soul will find yours. -- Jude Deveraux
Love is an act of faith. -- Erich Fromm
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. -- Rumi
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful. -- Charlaine Harris
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. -- Charles Dickens
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. -- Ray Bradbury
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. -- Leo Tolstoy
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. -- William Shakespeare
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William E. Gladstone
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. -- Richelle Mead
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. -- Henry Drummond
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. -- Erich Fromm
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. -- Dick Gregory
French is the language that turns dirt into romance. -- Stephen King
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. -- Bernard Williams
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex. -- Marilu Henner
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. -- Charlie Chaplin
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. -- Sarah MacLean
I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian. -- Dave Eggers
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? -- Katharine Anthony
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. -- Tina St. John
I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance. -- Mindy Kaling
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there. -- Marcus du Sautoy
A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance. -- Sasha Grey
I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it. -- Natalie Portman
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. -- Suzanne Brockmann
I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. -- Helen Fisher
I've always seen My Chemical Romance as the band that would have represented who me and my friends were in high school, and the band that we didn't have to represent us - the kids that wore black - back then. -- Gerard Way
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. -- Marilyn Monroe
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. -- Emma Watson

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