Quotes about Romance

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  1. When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. - Dorothy Allison, Writer
    11-Apr-1949
     
  2. There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. - Kevin J. Anderson, Writer
    27-Mar-1962
     
  3. The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? - Katharine Anthony, Writer
    27-Nov-1877 - 20-Nov-1965
     
  4. They ask questions like 'do you believe in aliens' and those types of things. They were really interested in aliens, and that was really something that the Japanese have an interest in, and they are also very big fans of romances. - Shiri Appleby, Actress
    07-Dec-1978
     
  5. People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. - Adam Arkin, Actor
    19-Aug-1956
     
  6. In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. - Elizabeth Ashley, Actress
    30-Aug-1939
     
  7. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. - W. H. Auden, Poet
    21-Feb-1907 - 29-Sep-1973
     
  8. My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. - Jean M. Auel, Writer
    18-Feb-1936
     
  9. Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honore de Balzac, Novelist
    20-May-1799 - 18-Aug-1850
     
  10. I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. - Drew Barrymore, Actress
    22-Feb-1975
     
  11. For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. - Thora Birch, Actress
    11-Mar-1982
     
  12. Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. - Orlando Bloom, Actor
    13-Jan-1977
     
  13. The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. - Ray Bradbury, Writer
    22-Aug-1920
     
  14. The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. - Thomas Bulfinch, Writer
    15-Jul-1796 - 27-May-1867
     
  15. It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear. - Thomas Bulfinch, Writer
    15-Jul-1796 - 27-May-1867
     
  16. The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. - Leslie Caron, Actress
    01-Jul-1931
     
  17. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. - Barbara Cartland, Novelist
    09-Jul-1901 - 21-May-2000
     
  18. I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance. - June Carter Cash, Musician
    23-Jun-1929 - 15-May-2003
     
  19. I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it. - Shaun Cassidy, Musician
    27-Sep-1958
     
  20. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. - Charlie Chaplin, Actor
    16-Apr-1889 - 25-Dec-1977
     
  21. He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. - Leslie Charteris, Writer
    12-May-1907 - 15-Apr-1993
     
  22. Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. - Morris Chestnut, Actor
    01-Jan-1969
     
  23. Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life. - Bette Davis, Actress
    05-Apr-1908 - 06-Oct-1989
     
  24. There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time. - Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer
    08-Dec-1925 - 16-May-1990
     
  25. Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. - Julie Delpy, Actress
    21-Dec-1969
     
  26. I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. - Anita Desai, Novelist
    24-Jun-1937
     
  27. People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. - Ann Druyan, Writer
    13-Jun-1949
     
  28. American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. - Katherine Dunn, Novelist
     
  29. The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience. - Sanjay Dutt, Actor
    29-Jul-1959
     
  30. Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant. - Aaron Eckhart, Actor
    12-Mar-1968
     
  31. In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero. - Chow Yun Fat, Actor
    18-May-1955
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