Romance Quotes - Page 36

• I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.

  Elizabeth Proctor

  Dating, Honest, Made

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• The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dating, Female, Students

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• He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Home, Dating, Mind

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• In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].

  Paul Reiser

  Dating, News, History Of Life

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• I don’t shout the loudest, and I’m quite shy, which was why I was reluctant to throw myself into the public eye. I love beauty, craftsmanship, storytelling and romance, and I probably don’t have the armor to survive the relentless competition that exists in this particular world. But I have my own toughness.

  Sarah Burton

  Eye, Love Is, Competition

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• There always has been a mystique and a romance about aviation, but in terms of the principles involved of satisfying your customer there's no difference between selling airlines seats and chocolate bars.

  Mike Batt

  Differences, Chocolate, Principles

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• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Business Deals

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned . . . than in the lunatic asylum, during their intervals of calmness and reason.

  Philippe Pinel

  Husband, Giving, Parent

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• Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

  E. L. James

  Giving, Twists, Panties

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• My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Needs, Want

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• You don't take away my choices. You are my choice.

  Colleen Houck

  Choices

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• Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

  Jessica Simpson

  Spiritual, Giving, Special

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• I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

  Ernestine Rose

  Reality, Stubborn, Fancy

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

  Frederick Lewis Allen

  Love, Moments, Casual

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• Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.

  Levon Aronian

  Games, Enemy, Chess

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• She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Knitting, Magazines

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• A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Book, Passion

  Jonathan Swift, Deane Swift, Thomas Birch, Thomas Wilkes, Thomas Hawkesworth (1768). “The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies in prose”, p.366

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• My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mother, Book, Avid

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• True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

  Jacqueline Carey

  True Friend, Thinking, Anxiety

  Jacqueline Carey (2012). “Kushiel's Scion: Treason's Heir: Book One”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

  Jason Wu

  Paris, Pastries, Shops

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• I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Mistake, School, Actresses

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• What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

  Kenneth Turan

  Wise, Hollywood, Derivatives

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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• Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!

  Maggie Shayne

  Cheer, Real, Book

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Comforting, Promise, Triumph

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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