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