Parent of golden dreams - romance! [ Byron ]
Romance is the poetry of literature. [ Mme. Necker ]
No age ever seemed the age of Romance to itself. [ Carlyle ]
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. [ Talleyrand ]
The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. [ Bovee ]
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
When a man and woman are married, their romance ceases and their history commences. [ Rochebrune ]
To make love only when signing the marriage certificate, is to take romance by the tail. [ Moliere ]
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. [ Balzac ]
Love pleases more than marriage, for the reason that romance is more interesting than history. [ Chamfort ]
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Always! that is a dreadful word. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Marriage is a romance until the book is open. True, the preface is sometimes amusing, but it never lasts long, and it is always deceptive. [ Poincelot ]
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low. [ Swift ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]