Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Maybe we should live life as one long, romantic, breathtaking dance. Enjoying ever step instead of trying to get to any certain point.

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

We travelers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

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

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

Your fortune stateth: Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said ''Yes, we have no bananas,'' and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were -- and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

The Roman Rule The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Pizza! Pizza!" [Response when a history teacher asked "What was the motto of ancient Roman males?"];"Tyler

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

But there's nothing romantic about a bottle! Oh! Never mind.

What could be more repellent than to suffer the limitation of others as a desperat alternative to gazing singly at our own?;"Alain de Botton, "The Romantic Movement

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.

The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.

Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.

Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is the Latin for office automation?

Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.

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.

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

Music makes one feel so romantic

Romances I never read like those I have seen.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

? Taken ? Single ? Too busy shipping fictional romances to worry about my own.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.