quotations about romance
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect. The Oriental tale is not too vast. Pearls dropping from trees are only falling leaves in Autumn. The palace that grew up in a night, merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the commonplaces of five.
ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT
Pleasures, Objects and Advantages of Literature
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
Succubus Blues
Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead'st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys.
LORD BYRON
"To Romance"
A fine romance, with no kisses
A fine romance, my friend this is
We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes
But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes
A fine romance, you won't nestle
A fine romance, you won't wrestle
I might as well play bridge
With my old maid aunt
I haven't got a chance
This is a fine romance
ELLA FITZGERALD
"A Fine Romance"
Romance is resilient ... the collapse of the first crystallization is typically but a phase in the construction of the second -- those who dwell in and for illusion eventually learn to tolerate the vicissitudes of its dialectic, even to celebrate them for the sake of intensity and the frisson which is the telos of romance.
M. C. DILLON
Beyond Romance
Romance is a kind of journey, one that cannot be set in a single point in time. It grows, it changes, and it deepens and widens over time.
DONALD BAACK & PAMELA BAACK
The Everything Romance Book
If romance is contingent upon the illusions of idealization, it can only be fleeting or seriously deluded. In our popular wisdom, the intense idealization that is central to "falling in love" is regressive and childlike, laced with fantasy. Romance fades over time because familiarity provides a more realistic, "warts and all" view of the other; the harsh sunlight of the morning after dispels the enchantment of the moonlight. The most we can hope for is that infatuation will be transformed into a more sober "liking."
STEPHEN A. MITCHELL
Can Love Last?
Is it goodbye to those one night stands
Where you get what you want
Such a crazy steal
Hello to romance
THE HOLLIES
"Hello To Romance"
If ... certain old combinations of romance are becoming obsolete, new ones, no less picturesque, and even more vital in their drama, are being evolved every day by the new conditions.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
"Modern Aids to Romance", Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
You must begin your pursuit of real romance by understanding that romance is a choice. Romance is an attitude. Romance is a commitment to a healthy relationship.
JEFFREY BERNSTEIN & SUSAN MAGEE
Why Can't You Read My Mind?
Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Eat, Pray, Love
Make memories together. That should be what romance is all about, rather than grinding on some stranger in Bridge on a Thursday night.
HUW PID
"Love Me Tender, Love Me Sweet: Romance in Music is Obsolete", OxStu, February 24, 2016
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E. A. BUCCHIANERI
Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
ANITA BROOKNER
Women Writers Talk
Romance is the grand illusion by which most women and men live, whether or not they consciously know it.
PATRICIA MELLENCAMP
A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism
She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The Notebook
Romance is a fiction that keeps women captive.
PATRICIA MELLENCAMP
A Fine Romance: Five Ages of Film Feminism
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
STEPHENIE MEYER
New Moon
In the ballroom of romance, there's a young man waiting,
Standing looking over at the scene, it could be you or me,
Every eye in the room was watching as she walked over to him,
Whispered "do you want to come with me, I'm heading for the beach,"
In her BMW 635, going smooth at ninety, feeling good to be alive,
And then the moon began to shimmer,
Hey the sea was roaring in,
Just one kiss and then his heart,
Began to sing, he said
I'm ready, I'm ready for romance.
CHRIS DE BURGH
"The Ballroom of Romance"
My romance doesn't have to have a moon in the sky
My romance doesn't need a blue lagoon standing by
No month of may, no twinkling stars
No hide away, no softly guitars
My romance doesn't need a castle rising in spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surprising refrain
Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true
My romance doesn't need a thing but you
ELLA FITZGERALD
"My Romance"