Romance Quotes - Page 27

• Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
  Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
  And trembles then, lest it has done too little.

  Hannah More

  Love, Giving, Done

  "I'll Tell You What. Next Door Neighbours. Wise Man Of The East. Percy. Trip To Scarborough".

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

  Barbara Cartland

  Book, Historical, Kind

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• Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

  Washington Irving

  Business, Reality, Enchantment

  Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New York Monthly Magazine”, p.304

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 4

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• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Sunset, Rome

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• As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

  Walt Whitman

  History, Needs

  1855 Leaves of Grass, preface.

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• No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Age, Romanticism

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• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ships, Sail, Objects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

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• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Years, Looks

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

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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

  Romanticism

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

  Alexander McQueen

  Inspirational, Sadness, Thinking

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• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Passion, Energy

  Time magazine, February 03, 1958.

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• Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Love, Life, Late

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

  Max Eastman

  Art, Bears, Chance

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• 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

  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

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• Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Real, Science

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Looks, Magazines, Way

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.215, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Education, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "First on the Moon". Book by Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong, 1970.

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• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Doors, Fiction

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.383, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Life, Men, Justice

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• Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

  Samuel Richardson

  Fire, Imagination, Judgment

  "A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction".

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• In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.

  Alexander Pope

  Doe, World, Said

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• I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Love, Life, Sex

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• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, People, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Love Is, Pleasure

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 259, 1678.

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