Quote by Isaac D’Israeli
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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