romance

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

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

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

14 views 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 more quotes 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 other quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

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 quotes from John Keats

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.

6 other 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 quotes from Thomas Wolfe

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 quotes from Billy Strayhorn

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

12 thoughts from Gene Tierney

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

2 thoughts from Walter Hagen

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

26 more quotes from Emily Dickinson

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

17 more thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

7 views from John Greenleaf Whittier

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

7 other quotes 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 quotes from Virginia Woolf

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

16 sayings from Havelock Ellis

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

11 more thoughts from James Joyce

Romance is everything.

31 sayings 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 views from George Murray

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

7 other sayings from Gloria Swanson

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 views from Bette Davis

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

11 other thoughts from Charlie Chaplin

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

8 other thoughts 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 sayings 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 wisdom & wit 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 thoughts from Andre Maurois