Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.
No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don’t become cynical or ‘unsentimental’ unless there’s a core of romanticism or sentiment that’s had a few chips nicked into it.
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Are you telling me you’re cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
I decided to write category romance as I’d recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.
Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance – And must I lose a soul’s inheritance?
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.