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Quotes About Romantic

Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
~ Ray Bradbury
This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.
~ Joseph Conrad
But there's something flirty/sexy about his voice that's appealing to my inner romantic comedy actress. Then again, maybe it's just his penthouse apartment I'm hearing. My inner gold digger frequently beats the crap out of my inner Meg Ryan.
~ Josh Kilmer-Purcell
The outsider never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of the West. The West never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of itself.
~ Wallace Stegner
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~ Walter Pater
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.'
~ Warren Buffett
The bisexual, promiscuous, try-anything sex addict who'd go to bed with anyone had miraculously evolved into a romantic, love-struck swain.
~ Wendy Leigh
Contrary to general belief, evil is neither tragic nor romantic; most of the time, it is banal.
~ Danilo Kiš
The difference between "romantic" and "creepy" is the other person's reaction to it.
~ Dave Weasel
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
~ James Earl Jones
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
~ James Joyce
THE ELEGANT WORKING out of designs historical and romantic, political and commercial, psychological and moral, over a multivolume novel is a Dorothy Dunnett specialty.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Yes—but your luck will come more at the end of life than at the beginning, because the other sort of people won't understand the way your mind works. They will start by thinking you dreamy and romantic, and then they'll be surprised to discover that you are really hard and heartless, they'll be quite wrong both times—but they won't ever know it, and you won't know it at first, and it'll worry you.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo.
~ Douglas Coupland
It is romantic, yes," agreed Hercule Poirot. "It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun.
~ Agatha Christie
É un luogo romantico, sì" convenne Poirot, "e tranquillo. Il sole brilla e il mare è un incanto. Ma dimentica, signorina Brewster, che il male si annida dovunque, sotto il sole.
~ Agatha Christie
Dyspepsia is responsible for many a reputation for romantic melancholy or ungovernable rages.
~ Agatha Christie
As far as he could tell, suicidal people were often in a strangely romantic mood. It was part of the reason why people still flocked to famous suicide spots as Mount Mihara and Kegon Waterfall—the lure of tradition, and the desire to decorate one's last moments with a bit of beautiful scenery.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
~ Alan Moore
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
~ Alan Moore
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.
~ Harvey Fierstein
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.
~ Matthew McConaughey