Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. - Oscar Wilde
Diamond heists, romance & intrigue feature in Stella di Mare. - Patricia Bellomo
The reason most relationships fail isn’t because we haven’t found the right person. It’s because we haven’t found ourselves and we’re hoping someone can fill that void for us. They can’t. No one can. Self-love is and always will be a prerequisite to every happy romance. - Vironika Tugaleva
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. - Oscar Wilde
I think there’s a ton of fear in the perception of romance in part because there’s something very realistic in great romance — namely, that women have the right to demand relationships that are based on equality and honesty and trust and, yes, a great sex life. - Sarah MacLean
Romance comes from the heart and is manifested in actions. - Daryl Baugh
No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! - Sheri S. Tepper
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. - Augustine of Hippo
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere. - Arthur Conan Doyle
WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick. - Maureen Johnson
I don’t know what has changed with globalization, but as far I understand it has changed the value of love to sex and romance to money. - M.F. Moonzajer
Transcendent, magical romance happens when you’re one hundred percent present for each other as #supersoul lovers. - Amy Leigh Mercree
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes... - Adriana Trigiani
Just as "normal" as anyone... only I write my thoughts out on paper & illustrate a world of Romance in your mind as you read my creations. ~ A. L. Woodz - Angel L. Woodz
I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words. - Sanober Khan
I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No. - Cypher Lx
Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men. - Steve Maraboli
Romance is a tender kiss with a lingering promise of more to come. - Tim Campbell
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. - Arthur C. Clarke
It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close. - David Levithan
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. - Margaret Atwood
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Elinor Glyn
Romance is everything to turn it into a cause for given is priceless - Maxine Wilson-Perry
Carve your own adventure, bloom your own romance, thread your own signs - Noor Iskandar
Que escrúpulo pode ter uma mulher em beijocar um terceiro entre os lençóis conjugais, se o mundo chama a isso sentimentalmente um romance, e os poetas o cantam em estrofes de ouro? - Eça de Queirós
I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. - Glen Cook
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. - Oscar Wilde
Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. - E. M. Forster
No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it, and happily-ever-after can result. What's more, the darker the past, the brighter the future - and the better the read. - Sarah MacLean
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley
She wanted to hold on to the rosy candlelight glow of romance, rather than have to deal with the bright, sometimes glaring day-to-day life with another person. And who could blame her? - Florence Falk
The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity. - Mr. Depravity
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. - Benjamin Disraeli
I write romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
I don't like romance, I don't like sadness. The sadness motion is negative one... as much you are sad as more deeper you go and you want to return the thing which you can't. - Deyth Banger
What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters. - Alex Flinn
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde
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. - Groucho Marx
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks
Romance is the fragrance of pure love. - Debasish Mridha
Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality. - G.K. Chesterton
A romance book is designed to tell you something about love–its ability to endure, forgive, go the extra mile, care about someone, put someone else first. - Dee Henderson
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. - Don Miguel Ruiz
Paranormal romance gives me the opportunity to explore love outside of its traditional boundaries. Common themes are hunger and uncontrollable desires, but I like to push further into wounds that cannot be healed and the way love can still find its way into the cracks of a fractured soul. - Stephanie Draven
When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It’s also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed. - Maya Rodale
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. - Matt Groening
Romance is an illusion of love and excitement that touches our hearts and mind. It lingers in our memories like a fairy tale. - Debasish Mridha
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. - Janet Evanovich
Passion, emotion, love and romance they all look better in movies; in reality all you need is a big dick. - M.F. Moonzajer
Hay relaciones en las que las palabras dice amistad, pero los ojos gritan romance. - Woody Allen
Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..! - Himmilicious
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. - Theodore Roosevelt
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ironically, in life, you sacrifice everything you love in the name of love"~ the motto of the romance novel Cupcakes and Cologne. - Doina Moulin
Of all the queer sources of romance, ours lay in the discovery that each was an addict of Boswell's Life of Johnson. H.E.G. had a first edition of the Journey to the Hebrides, which I coveted mightily. Why not acquire the book honorably, marry the man, and have it around the house? - Beatrice Fairfax
Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality! - Dr. Vivencio Ballano
Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance. - Oscar Wilde
It's not a romance, it's a love story. - Sadie Jones
Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure. - Mordecai Richler
Passion is univeral humanity. Without it religion, history, art, and romance would be useless. - Honore de Balzac
To tell a love story true, a romance writer must bare hearts, souls and bodies. - Chris Lange
On romance books: We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles. - Daphne Clair
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him. - Julia Quinn
I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . . which always leads to disillusionment . . . which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there. - Kurt Bubna
I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us". - Steve Maraboli
The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem. - Steve Maraboli
Romance this moment, this hour, this day. String moments together like pearls on a rope. - Rachelle Du Bois
It is so gratifying to tell so many stories my eye can romance with, that i become the stories.They shall live on after me, and in that way it makes me immortal - Deejay Kapil
Advice from a Romance Writer: Guys, make your woman feel pretty even on an 'off' day. Trust me, good things will come of it. - Michelle M. Pillow
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde
To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance. - Sanober Khan
Porn mainly exists to satisfy the physical needs of men. Unfortunately many young men use porn to get educated about sex. But porn is not romance, lovemaking and about an emotional connection with their girlfriend, wife, or lover. - Dr. Warren Shepell
I write about romance and passion to savour love twice, in the moment and in retrospect. - Angeline M. Bishop
It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself. - Jenna Alatari
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. - Muriel Fox
The sky blue strengthens slowly, the dawn light rosy and pale the summer song of our romance begin to unveil...with every heart beat and the waves' breath...the time stood in harmony still. Your morning kiss my hands could feel...by your lips soft, so warm, so very gentle, nice and full of life... - Oksana Rus
Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love. - Amy Leigh Mercree
If you desire romance then give some it’s equally heartwarming. There’s many ways to satisfy one’s heart, and feel special. - Ron Baratono
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous. - Nathanael West
Love is not getting high on fantasies of romance, the perfect lover, absolute happiness and sexual ecstasy. Love is based on a two way communication and respect, and that only exists between equals. - Anselma Dell'Olio
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. - Orson Scott Card
We all know interspecies romance is weird. - Tim Burton
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not. - Ashton Kutcher
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance. - Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde
I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance. - Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht Club
Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality? - Saurabh Sharma
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes. - Patton Oswalt
You will see romance everywhere when your heart is dancing with love and joy. - Debasish Mridha
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. - Ray Bradbury
Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride. - T.R. Wallace
Escaping Reality One Erotic Romance Novel At a Time. - S.K. Logsdon