Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed. Horace Walpole
To love one’s self is the beginning of a life-long romance. Oscar Wilde
Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley
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
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Benjamin Disraeli
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
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. Anita Brookner
Romanticism is found precisely neither in the choice of subjects nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling. Charles Baudelaire
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty. Charles Baudelaire
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. Maurice Chevalier
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Doug Horton