Romance Quotes

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

Romance is everything.

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

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.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!