Romance

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. – Thomas Carlyle

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. – Aleister Crowley

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. – Isaac Disraeli

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. – Beverly Jones

And whats romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and its always daisy-time. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. – Mary Wortley Montagu

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as Lovers Lane. – Source Unknown

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. – Source Unknown

Whats the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, todays music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring. – David A. Vigilanti

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. – Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. – Oscar Wilde

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving ones self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde