Romance Quotes - Page 35

• To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.

  George Saintsbury

  Mind, Division, Care

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.13, tredition

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• Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Girl, Talking, Confusing

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• It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.

  Kató Lomb

  Animal, Names, Two

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• Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.

  Jerry Saltz

  Teacher, Art, School

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• That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Thinking, Our World, Littles

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Century, Ends, Prose

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.

  Caroline Knapp

  Jobs, Addiction, Different

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• Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one romance the Soul's.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Soul, Greatest Love

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• Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Long, Dating, Fortresses

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice" speaks wistfully to the moment. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy are tantalizing early prototypes for a Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy ideal of lovers as brainy, passionate sparring partners. That the world teems with fantasies of Mr. Darcy and his ilk there is no doubt. How many of his type are to be found outside the pages of a novel, however, is another matter.

  Stephen Holden

  Pride, Games, Two

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• One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

  Alessandra Stanley

  Witty, Writing, Men

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• The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

  Moliere

  Love, Ambition, Dating

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• People who get married because they're in love make a ridiculous mistake. It makes much more sense to marry your best friend. You like your best friend more than anyone you're ever going to be in love with. You dont choose your best friend because they have a cute nose.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cute, Mistake, Love You

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• If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Dating, Skins, Looks

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• One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not always like that.

  Julian Fellowes

  Real, People, Dating

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• I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.

  John Waters

  Sleep, Long, Dating

  "My experiment at being God failed" by Joe Jackson, www.independent.ie. May 20, 2007.

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• The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Marriage, Time

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

  Ovid

  Yield, Dating, Delight

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• The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

  Bernd Schuster

  Moon, Weather, Dating

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• As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

  Garrison Keillor

  Kissing, Dating, Wish

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• To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Kissing, Essence, Dating

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• Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

  Jared Diamond

  Sex, Sibling, Opposites

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• I've been around a long time, and young men, if there is one thing I know, it is that the only way to kiss a girl for the first time is to look like you want to and intend do, and move in fast enough to seem eager but slow enough to give her a chance to say "So anyway ..." and look up as if she's trying to remember your name.

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, Moving, Kissing

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• When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

  Roger Ebert

  Girl, Sex, Mean

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.364, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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