I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much – if he lives and uses that in hand day by day – shall be full to running over.
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let ‘born again’ patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.
Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?
That’s why there’s so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.
Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone’s secret dream-it’s why we’re alive.
The romance of religion isn’t nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.
Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
I don’t get the romances. I did try – a film called ‘Roseanna’s Grave’ in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn’t come.
The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?
I’ve looked around enough to know that you’re the one I want to go through time with.
While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it’s all on you.
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.
I’ve tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody’s supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind.