Quotes About Romance

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay?

This is my beloved this is my friend. Song of Solomon 5:17

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion.

I shall always be a priest of love.

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.