Romance quotes
Quotations about romance from a variety of people, including Lord Byron, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many others.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
– – – –Anita Brookner
Parent of golden dreams, Romance!
Auspicious queen of childish joys,
Who lead’st along, in airy dance,
Thy votive train of girls and boys.
– – – –Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), To Romance
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
– – – –Mason Cooley
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of every day life into a golden haze.
– – – –Elinor Glynn
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
– – – –Beverly Jones
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
– – – –Stephen King
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time.
– – – –D. H. Lawrence
He loved the twilight that surrounds
The border-land of old romance;
Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,
And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,
And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,
And mighty warriors sweep along,
Magnified by the purple mist,
The dusk of centuries and of song.
– – – –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn
Romance is the poetry of literature.
– – – –Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing
– – – –Edgar Allan Poe
Romance is everything.
– – – –Gertrude Stein
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
– – – –John Greenleaf Whittier
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
– – – –Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
– – – –Oscar Wilde
