(358 quotes found)
“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
Honore de Balzac
“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
“Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.”
Uma Thurman
“Romances paint at full length people's wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings”
Lord Byron
“Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”
Bette Davis
“I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.”
Shaun Cassidy
“There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind...”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“[Good Charlotte, on hand to support Green Day and other friends ( My Chemical Romance and the Game, according to singer Joel Madden ), also rubbed elbows with the Ying Yang Twins and Alicia Keys .] She was very nice, ... Usually people come up and say they like our band, so it's a great place to make new friends. It's like going to summer camp.”
Benji Levi Madden
“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.”
John Updike