Romantic Quotes
"Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, if folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
- Romantic Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.”
- Romantic Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
"As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.”
- Romantic Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”
- Romantic Quotes by Leo F. Buscaglia
"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.”
- Romantic Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
"For sure so fair a place was never seen; Of all that ever charmed romantic eye.”
- Romantic Quotes by John Keats
"Should ever the fine-eyed maid to me be kind; Ah! surely it must be whenever I find; Some flowery spot, sequestered, wild, romantic; That often must have seen a poet frantic.”
- Romantic Quotes by John Keats
"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.”
- Romantic Quotes by Walter Hagen
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.”
- Romantic Quotes by Margaret Chase Smith
"He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.”
- Romantic Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.”
- Romantic Quotes by Leonardo DiCaprio
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave”
- Romantic Quotes by William Butler Yeats
"There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving”
- Romantic Quotes by Lesley Blanch
"If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball”
- Romantic Quotes by George Carlin
"To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic”
- Romantic Quotes by George Santayana
"Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in”
- Romantic Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a "romantic”
- Romantic Quotes by Warren Buffett
"Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known”
- Romantic Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality”
- Romantic Quotes by Marya Mannes
"I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love to sink my teeth into something like 'Fargo'”
- Romantic Quotes by Courteney Cox
"It seems to me that the real clue to your sex-orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.”
- Romantic Quotes by Christopher Isherwood
"Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed.”
- Romantic Quotes by Edmund Davies
"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.”
- Romantic Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
"The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.”
- Romantic Quotes by Fabio Lanzoni
"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.”
- Romantic Quotes by Gloria Steinem
"The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.”
- Romantic Quotes by George V. Higgins
"Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.”
- Romantic Quotes by Hugh Hefner
"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing.”
- Romantic Quotes by Jennifer Love Hewitt
"President Clinton, this guy is sharp. Boy, he gave Hillary the most romantic Valentine's gift today, a huge rose garden. Where would he get that?”
- Romantic Quotes by Jay Leno
"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.”
- Romantic Quotes by Lillian Carter
"If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. [Its] departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England.”
- Romantic Quotes by Mark Wallington
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.”
- Romantic Quotes by Max Eastman
"I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.”
- Romantic Quotes by Morgan Freeman
"We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
- Romantic Quotes by Mary Worley Montagu
- Romantic Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"You can get caught up in the visceral charge of its engines, sing along with its chunky tunes and dream its romantic dreams and still feel the cold wind of the history blowing through its pages.”
- Romantic Quotes by Stephen Holden
"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
- Romantic Quotes by Andre Maurois
"The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.”
- Romantic Quotes by Andrew Sullivan
"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.”
- Romantic Quotes by Anita Brookner
"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.”
- Romantic Quotes by Thomas More
"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.”
- Romantic Quotes by Brigitte Bardot
"When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.”
- Romantic Quotes by Sarah Jessica Parker
"The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
- Romantic Quotes by Doug Horton
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.”
- Romantic Quotes by Italo Calvino
"If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
- Romantic Quotes by Quentin Crisp
"Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
- Romantic Quotes by Thomas Wolfe
