Love & Romance

The world is no longer a romantic place.
Some of its people still are however,
and therein lies the promise.
Don't let the world win.
--John Cage, "Ally McBeal"

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring
of fiction and love.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Love that is not madness is not love.
--Pedro Calderon

What Is Romance? Romance is a state of mind. Romance is an attitude. Romance is about the little things- small loving gestures, hugs, saying "I love you" (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
--Gregory Godek (1001 Ways To Be Romantic)

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
--Oscar Wilde

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
--Havelock Ellis

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise
and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take
its passion and lose it forever.
--Leo Buscaglia

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.
--Helen Rowland

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
--C.G. Jung

We loved with a love that was more than love.
--Edgar Allan Poe

Paradise is always where love dwells.
--Jean Paul F. Richter

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration, Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.
--Charles Stanley ( A Man's Touch)

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
--Emil Ludwig

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.
--Ana Alas

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
--Amanda Cross

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

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!
--Robert Browning

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
--Thomas Moore

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.
--Edgar Allan Poe

I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
--Anthony Trollope

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
--W.H. Auden

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
--D.H. Lawrence