There are certain romances that belong in certain cities in a certain atmosphere in a certain time.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

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

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

I'm a feminist but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert the empty space the drama.

Remember beneath every cynic there lies a romantic and probably an injured one.

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

Romance is everything.

Romance is thinking about your significant other when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest it's so disarming.

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.

The telephone which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations has a romance of its own.

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

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt they're sensitive and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny dear part in them that's still alive.

A tramp a gentleman a poet a dreamer a lonely fellow always hopeful of romance and adventure.

The word 'romance ' according to the dictionary means excitement adventure and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

I'm a hopeless romantic and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well I'll buy the flowers remember the dates of things plan fun nights out.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.