romance
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
19 wisdom & wit from John Keats
The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
6 thoughts from Bela Lugosi
Is this not the true romantic feeling not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
4 views from Thomas Wolfe
I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.
12 more thoughts from Gene Tierney
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
5 quotes from Marya Mannes
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
2 sayings from Billy Strayhorn
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
17 thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
2 quotes from Walter Hagen
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
26 views from Emily Dickinson
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
7 sayings from Max Eastman
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
30 sayings from Virginia Woolf
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
11 thoughts from James Joyce
Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
4 quotes from George Murray
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
16 other quotes from Havelock Ellis
Romance is everything.
31 sayings from Gertrude Stein
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
7 sayings from Gloria Swanson
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
11 quotes from Charlie Chaplin
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
21 more quotes from Bette Davis
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
8 quotes from Paul Lynde
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.
5 more quotes from Igor Stravinsky
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
28 quotes from William Butler Yeats
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
14 other quotes from Andre Maurois
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
2 quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 more sayings from Charles Bukowski
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
14 quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
14 more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
8 quotes from Charles Kuralt
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
15 more views from Cyril Connolly