Na Romance Quotes

The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

We arrogantly assume that the nervous system doesn't really need to be coaxed into romance. That romance comes from some other place.

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

A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.

Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

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

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

I don't get a whole lot out of the romance thing, but I realize girls do. So I'll go out of my way to make them feel romanced.

Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.

Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

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

Every book should have a romance.

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

I'm not real good at romance.

... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

Katie Lane is a wonderful new voice in Western romance fiction.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

Over time the energy generated in romance and lovemaking provides the vitality that inspires each partner for enthusiastic creative expression in life.

Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.

I'm drawn to bad romances.