Romance Quotes


Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.
Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922( British academic.

Is not this the true romantic feeling not to desire o escape life, but to prevent life escaping you?
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) American author.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo – Irish author.

Romance is the poetry of literature.
Mad Necker.

Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.
Sterne

The habitual indulgence in such reading is a silent, ruining mischief.
Hannah More.

In this commonplace world every one is said to be romantic who either admires a fine thing or does one.
Pope

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

In the meanest hut is a romance, if you but knew the hearts there.
Van Ense

I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Burke

To the romance writers, and comparatively decorous dramatists of his own time, Nicole gave the title of public poisoners.


Fiction may be more instructive than real history; but the vast rout of romances and novels, as they are, do in calculable mischief. I wish we could collect all together, and make one vast fire of them. I should exult to see the smoke of them ascend, like that of Sodom of them ascend, like that of Sodom and Gomorrah: the judgment would be a just.
J.Foster.

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