Quotes About Romantic

If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless.

Sono gli stessi gradini dai quali Jane Austen fa cadere Louisa Musgrove in Persuasione . Come è romantico. Gli uomini erano romantici... allora.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.

You should wait, William, Miss Frost said. The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

Where are you now? How are the nymphs? I suppose they have led you a fine dance.

I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces

Their special scent is a part of many of our perfumes. Photos or paintings of roses grace calendars, cards and advertisements. Poets and songwriters frequently use the romantic symbolism

the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author's romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.

the glow of a sunset more lasting, more roseate. more human - filling, perhaps, with romantic wonder the thoughts of some solitary lover, wandering in the street below and brought to a standstill before the mystery of the human presence which those lighted windows at once revealed and screened from sight...

his writings derive from a basically romantic temperament)

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

He was now nothing but a ruin, but a splendid one; grander than a ruin, he had the romantic beauty of a rock beaten by a tempest. Scourged from every side by the waves of suffering, by rage at his suffering, his face, slowly crumbling like a block of granite almost submerged by the towering seas, retained the style, the suavity I had always admired.

And romantic," she added, smiling at the man whose deep-set blue eyes now saw everything so clearly, "but I never dreamed it would turn out so wonderfully for all of us.

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

The romantic wants to create a world where he or she will possess a fully integrated, unconflicted identity—where the answers to the questions Who am I? and What are we? are exactly the same.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.