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Romantic Quotes



"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."


"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."


"Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."


"I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing."


"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."


"I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not."


"I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic."


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


"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."


"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."


"I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you."


"There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature."


"The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects."


"I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking."


"The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story."


"There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful."


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


"Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant."


"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes."


"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."


"To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much."
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