Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.
Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.
I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
I found something! Courage – just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.
I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me.
It’s all life is. Just going ’round kissing people.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.