ROMANCE

Related Subjects: Adventure, Love, Mistress, Moon, Passion

1. Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching. It is always where you were, not where you are.—G. W. CURTIS, Lotus-Eating
   

2. Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers, need ruin to make them grow.—HAWTHORNE, Preface: The Marble Faun
   

3. Every form of human life is romantic.—T. W. HIGGINSON, A Plea for Culture
   

4. He loved the twilight that surrounds
   The borderland of old romance.—LONGFELLOW, Tales of a Wayside Inn
   

5. To romance we owe the spirit of adventure, the code of honour, both masculine and feminine.—SANTAYANA, The Genteel Tradition at Bay
   

6. Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.—WHITTIER, Mary Garvin
   

7. When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and
   one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
   

8. Romance should never begin with sentiment.
   It should begin with science and end with a settlement.—OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband
   

9. To say "mither" instead of "mother" seems to many the acme of romance.—OSCAR WILDE, Romantic Poems & Ballads
   

10. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance