They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?

John Buchan

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Pietro Aretino

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Barbara Cartland

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

Joni Mitchell

I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings.

Walter Raleigh, Sr.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

Matt Groening

Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless.

Honore De Balzac

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Dar Williams

All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that.

Diana Gabaldon

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

Theodore Reik

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Horace Walpole

Every encounter with a woman must be viewed as a negotiation, ... the difference being instead of coaxing them off rooftops, you're coaxing them into romance. And remember, the negotiator is always in control.

Christopher Curtis

He'll have a hand in turning Clark against Lex. He's going to have a romance with Lois and he teaches Clark more about the global responsibilities of having superpowers.

Al Gough

One of the areas that I think we can do a better job of selling is the customer experience overall. I think we can make it more evocative and we can make there be a stronger emotional connection and romance the products better than we are now.

Carter Cast

Gene and I just fell in love with the stories of these characters and the romance of these super-powered outlaw stations.

Bill Crawford

A lot of the romance of the West is in here.

Allen Tucker

Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

Muriel Fox

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

Bern Williams

I liked the title, and I wanted to explore the concept of this contrived holiday and what happens when romance is forced on us.

Nia Vardalos

It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language.

Debbie Guzzi

For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.

Ryan Gosling

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

Charlie Chaplin

Office romance just doesn't carry the same stigma it did a generation ago.

Mark Oldman

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is going to love it. It's not just a kid movie. It has romance between Helen and Frank, comedy from the younger kids, a love triangle between the teenagers. It's very broad.

Drake Bell

All kinds of thing pick up in spring. Spring is supposed to be a time for romance. I guess that gives us energy to pursue all kinds of things as the days lengthen.

Cullen Schwemer

I think what it speaks to is that romance has its practical and even Machiavellian and manipulative nature. People look out for their own welfare, and they'll do things that make it easier for them.

Pepper Schwartz

That romance was over before it started.

Marshall Wittman

It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.

Neil Gaiman

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Tim Burton

He's constantly reinventing himself. 'Romance,' for example, is a courtroom drama. You can find nothing else even remotely like that anywhere in his whole canon.

David Sauer

A woman like that you gotta romance first! [Bender].

Futurama

Failure to Launch stumbles its way to a preordained happy ending without generating either much romance or comedy.

Robert Butler

I (draw) a lot of inspiration from the romance and glamour of that period for my gowns especially.

Inno Soto

Our readers love celebrities, ... We cover the aspects of celebrity that our readers can most relate to -- romance, engagement, marriage, babies, shopping. It makes celebrities much more accessible to our reader, which is what she wants.

Janice Min

To some of them it had just been work, ... But some got caught up in the romance of creating comic books.

Michael Chabon

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Charles Kingsley

My illusions range from romance to rowdiness.

Curtis Adams

Yes, I'm afraid the romance is definitely gone.

Ted Johnson

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

Renee Zellweger

No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created the illusion of romance.

David Duchovny

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

Uma Thurman

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

Arthur C. Clarke

The cover sure is sexy, isn't it? I think the book is a great way to catch people's attention about the great potential for involving great food in romance, and I hope people will benefit from being reminded of this prior to Valentine's Day.

David Reiley

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Tony Scott

This very special evening of music, dance and romance offers a perfect opportunity to get some friends together for a special night out.

David Bridson

Some investors just like the idea of owning gold. There?s a certain romance to it, and that?s one of the reasons people buy it. But is that what investors should be doing? Not necessarily. If you?re going to hold it, make it a small piece of your portfolio.

Michael Iachini

Everybody has a worst fear, ... For some it's [things that happen while] traveling. For others it's love and romance. We saw the chance to get answers for all sorts of areas.

David Borgenicht

We always felt we have male readers who say they don't read our romance novels — but they do.

Marleah Stout

The idea is to get people in with the romance, ... so I kept one foot in the old camp.

Richard Curtis

How's Your Romance? Andrea Marcovicci Sings Cole Porter.

Andrea Marcovicci

Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

E. M. Forster

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

Dorothy Allison

I always wanted to work with Diane, ... I've probably had a crush on her since A Little Romance (1979), when she was 13 and I was about the same age.

John Cusack

Romance & Cigarettes.

John Turturro

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

Dave Grohl

I've had many, but I'll have to say when alcohol kills the romance ? in fact, when alcohol kills everything, if you know what I mean.

Enrique Iglesias

We get a lot of romance books, and we always have a good selection of paperbacks.

Esther Buck