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Romance is a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love
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Romance is a magical and wonderful thing
- Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn
- Romance is everything. Gertrude Stein
- Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life. Marianne Williamson
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Romance is an important form of nourishment in life
- Sometimes we are fed not by food but by the energy in our lives. These moments and feelings demonstrate that everything is food. We take in thousands of experiences of life that can fulfill us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We hunger for play, fun, touch, romance, intimacy, love, achievement, success, art, music, self- expression, leadership, excitement, adventure and spirituality. All of these elements are essential forms of nourishment. The extent to which we are able to incorporate them determines how enjoyable and worthwhile our lives feel. Joshua Rosenthal
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Romance, some argue, is particularly important to women
- The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can’t get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance. Joan Fontaine
- And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. Beatrice Wood
- There is a fundamental difference between men and women – women need romance, men need intrigue. Sherry Argov
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Many are suckers for romance …
- I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. Virginia Woolf
- I am just like any other girl, a sucker for romance. Amber Heard
- I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic. Drew Barrymore
- The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. Leslie Caron
- 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. Jennifer Love Hewitt
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… although some argue the spirit of romance is not as alive as it used to be
- Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley
- Romance is dead – it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
- for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel’s song! John Keats
- Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. Orlando Bloom
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Romance – honest or deceptive? |
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Some argue romance thrives on illusion and even deception …
- Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. Suzanne Finnamore
- Maybe illusion and artifice—lies, even—are a necessary part of romance. Jody Gehrman
- Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
- Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs. Margaret Atwood
- Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. Beverly Jones
- To understand one’s self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one’s self is the romantic. George Santayana
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… illusions that soon evaporate after marriage
- Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
- Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas More
- Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
- Romances paint at full length people’s wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings. Lord Byron
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Others argue that true romance is all about honesty and authenticity
- I think romance is anything honest. As long as it’s honest, it’s so disarming. Kristen Stewart
- For me, romance isn’t an over-the-top act. It’s someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I’m making the wrong decision, he’ll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. Thora Birch
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino
- Scholars, theologians, and even poets have yet to be able to truly describe and touch upon the beauty, romance, and magic of a relationship built on 100% authenticity. Steve Maraboli
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Romance thrives on love and is short lived without it
- Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short- lived. Danielle Steel
- True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well- being of one’s companion. Gordon B. Hinckley
- The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.’ Joss Whedon
- In real love you want the other person’s good. In romantic love you want the other person. Margaret Anderson
- Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. Mason Cooley
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Romance thrives on passion
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honoré de Balzac
- Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other’s person. Nathaniel Branden
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Romance thrives on a willingness to be open and vulnerable
- Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It’s the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, ‘This is me, and I’m interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.’ Ashton Kutcher
- Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. Charles Dickens
- Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too. Sophie Kinsella
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Romance thrives on attention and admiration
- Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life. Charles Stanley
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Romance thrives on trust and affection
- Romance is about building trust, affection, and harmony between two caring people. Mitch Thrower
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Romance thrives when lovers put in the effort
- I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn’t marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. Nicholas Sparks
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Romance thrives on variety
- The secret of love is seeking variety in your life together, and never letting routine chords dull the melody of your romance.
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Some argue romance thrives on mystery and the less lovers know each other, often the stronger it is
- A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’re married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that’s why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he’s dead. Andrew Sean Greer
- It’s so much easier to convince yourself you’re madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him. Megan McCafferty
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Romance often thrives on barriers and obstacles
- Barriers tend to intensify romance. It’s called the ‘Romeo and Juliet effect.’ I call it ‘frustration attraction.’ Helen Fisher
- I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. Ang Lee
- When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish…Do you think ‘Titanic’ would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. Orson Scott Card
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Romance often thrives on uncertainty
- The very essence of romance is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde
- Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart – when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won’t work out. It’s ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything. Rachael Taylor
- Embrace relational uncertainty. It’s called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It’s called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It’s called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It’s called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It’s called revelation. Mark Batterson
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Romance thrives when there is a genuine liking for each other; a friendship
- Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe
- Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that’s what’s really important. Jake Gyllenhaal
- The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last- forever romantic relationship. Suzanne Brockmann
- I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I’m writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it’s important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other – and to develop their friendship on the page. Veronica Roth
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Romance thrives away from domestic surroundings
- Romance is a love affair in other that domestic surroundings. Walter Raleigh, Sr.
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Romance can be spiced up by a touch of jealousy but poisoned by a larger dose
- Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. Helen Fisher
- Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life- threatening. Maya Angelou
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Romance does have its detractors |
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Romance is often overly optimistic
- I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. Elizabeth Gilbert
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Romance often tends to be overly idealistic
- Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Oliver Goldsmith
- Sometimes I wonder if there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps I’ve spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high. E.L. James
- And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it’s always daisy- time. D. H. Lawrence
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Romance is often part fiction
- In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. Elizabeth Ashley
- Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer’s thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination. Ambrose Bierce
- Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Isaac Disraeli
- Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. Mary Wortley Montagu
- Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. Janet Evanovich
- On the whole, audiences prefer that art be not a mirror held up to life, but a Disneyland of the soul, containing Romanceland, Spyland, Pornoland and all the other escapelands which are so much more agreeable than the complex truth. Geoffrey Wiseman
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Romance is often based on the illusion that you need someone to complete you
- Romantic love is the story of how you need another person to complete you. It’s an absolutely insane story. My experience is that I don’t need anyone to complete me. As soon as I realize that, everyone completes me. Byron Katie
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Some argue that fictional romance spreads a lot of damaging garbage
- It starts so young, and I’m angry about that. The garbage we’re taught. About love, about what’s “romantic.” Look at so many of the so- called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys– depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming
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Romance should not never mean losing touch with yourself
- 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. Julie Delpy
- It’s easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It’s fun to get lost in love and romance. It’s the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing. Brittany Murphy
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In fact, the most important romance you can have is with yourself
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
- Falling in love with yourself takes practice, and it’s worth the effort. Take yourself on dates, ogle your gorgeousness in the mirror, whisper sweet nothings to your mind. You’ll come around eventually. You’ll fall under your spell. You’ll melt in your yummy youness. Seriously, you’re pretty irresistible. Scott Stabile
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How do we keep romance alive? |
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Some argue romance should not be expected to last forever
- I think it’s wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that’s how it should be. But I don’t necessarily know that it’s the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss. Elizabeth Gilbert
- They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. Oscar Wilde
- I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. Anita Brookner
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Others argue we should resolve to do all we can to keep romance alive
- Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day. Zig Ziglar
- The word “romance,” according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham
- Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away. Tori Amos
- I’d do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I’ve flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it’s so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there. Brittany Murphy
- A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life. Ana Alas
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Be appreciative and affirming
- What you focus your attention on, grows. Say “thank you,” offer a hug, pay your partner a compliment—anything that communicates you acknowledge and value how important they are to you and that you appreciate them. Sheri Meyers
- Giving each other a daily dose of what I call the 3 A’s—attention, appreciation and affection—are the critical factors in keeping any relationship alive with interest and desire. Sheri Meyers
- From morning until night, couples have the opportunity to offer words of affirmation, appreciation and adoration to one another as well as the chance to offer nonverbal cues as well. Nonverbal cues are anything from a wink to a kiss to a smile. Jeffrey Sumber
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Show your love in small ways
- Try this. Leave a love note on their pillow, stuck in their purse, briefcase or book they’re reading. Bring home a special treat you know your partner will love. Text, call or email them to say, “I’m thinking of you.” Write a list of all the reasons you love and appreciate them and whisper each one into their ear. Sometimes it’s the little gestures that make the biggest impression. Sheri Meyers
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Shake things up
- Mix things up. Routines are par for the course in a long-term relationship. But you can easily break them! Doing new things together releases oxytocin in the brain, which is one of the chemicals that makes us feel all atwitter when a relationship is fresh. Try out new restaurants or take a day off to be with each other, Howes said. In other words, Zig where you usually zag once in a while. Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D.
- Break through the ho-hum “I’m so bored” barrier that often plagues long-term relationships by learning something or doing something new together. Sharing activities of mutual interest is the glue that makes relationship work and create happiness. Go ice skating, take a salsa lesson, rent rollerblades, go for a full moon hike, rent a bicycle built for two, or celebrate a milestone other than your anniversary—like the anniversary of the first day you made love. It’s amazing what getting out of your normal routine and pushing your comfort boundaries will do for your love life. Sheri Meyers
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Create intimate time
- Nothing says “I love you” like spending quality alone time together. Before rushing out the door in a frenzy in the morning, get up one hour earlier and share breakfast in bed, read an inspirational passage aloud, or go for an early morning walk. At the end of the day, instead of plunking down in front of the TV or computer, give each other a massage, take a shower together. Sheri Meyers
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Touch and embrace often
- So many couples hold back kissing, touching, or holding each other until they have time or the desire to have sex. Researchers have found that holding hands relieves stress and affectionate touch boosts the body’s feel good hormones. Let’s face it, touch is a fundamental part of our existence since we were born. So even a simple hug each day is actually good for your health and wellbeing. Hold hands. Stroke your partner’s arm or shoulder softly as you walk by. Give your partner a 20 second kiss when they walk in the door or are leaving for the day. Affection is the way to make love all day outside of the bedroom. Sheri Meyers
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Communicate clearly, honestly and frequently
- Talking to each other is one the main tools we use to connect with each other. When we extend ourselves and let our partner know who we are, what we need and how we feel, we open the doors to greater intimacy. Take at least 30 minutes and put out your ‘do not disturb sign’ to the world. Turn off the phone, close the door, and tell the kids, unless there is an emergency, not to even think about knocking. Then, sit down and take a few minutes to breathe and settle in with each other. Ask your partner what he or she needs from you. Take turns. Openness and honesty are essential. Sheri Meyers
- Communication also builds intimacy. Intimacy is all about connection, openness, and vulnerability, so fostering healthy, consistent communication is the bridge to regular intimacy. Jeffrey Sumber, MA.
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Carve out time to be together
- if we don’t make time to feed the relationship, it withers.” Schedule a time each week for just the two of you — with few exceptions. See a movie or dine out. Or do something more low-key like talking, listening, cooking or just lying on the couch together. Ryan Howes, Ph.D.
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Forgive quickly and easily
- Resentment kills romance. A grudge builds a wall between partners. Make forgiveness a regular part of the relationship by expressing how you feel, trying to understand what happened, asking for assurance it won’t happen again and then letting go by deciding not to hold the misdeed over your partner’s head. Ryan Howes, Ph.D.
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Take time for both of you, individually
- Both parties need to be whole people and that means continuing to indulge your own interests and needs. Keeping a relationship alive requires some spark, and without your own interests to keep yourself fulfilled and conversation alive, a relationship can quickly become dull. We also all need time and space to ourselves; no relationship can survive being together constantly. Rachel Buchanan
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Start dating again
- Take turns planning dates. This way one partner isn’t doing all the planning and organizing. Ryan Howes, Ph.D.
- Don’t lose the “date night” energy that’s always there at the beginning! Plan a date night at least once a week – or as often as is realistic for you. Ann Robbins
- Start Dating Again. Go out at least once a week. It doesn’t have to be an expensive date – just something simple. A brown bag dinner in the park, a walk around the lake, a cup of cappuccino at a coffee shop or simply putting the kids to bed early and just talking will often do the trick. Or, revisit the things that you did when you were dating, like going to a movie, the theatre or a nice relaxing dinner for two. Mitch Temple
- Instead of just saying, “I want to spend more time with my family and friends”, try actually making dates with them. That might mean romantic dates with your spouse or significant other, or non- romantic dates with your friends or kids or other family members. You don’t have to call it a date, but just schedule time with them on a regular basis to do something together. Leo Babauta
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Think about your love languages
- It is said that there are five ways to express and experience love: gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service, and physical touch. We all will place the list in differing priorities and often we express love in the way that we would like to receive it, not considering or realising that our partner might need something different. Spend some time discussing and try to talk your partner’s language rather than your own. Rachel Buchanan
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Don’t bring your phone to bed
- Find somewhere else to charge them, buy an alarm clock (and a side lamp – may as well get rid of all the arguments in one go) and use the time you would have spent checking Twitter before you go to sleep to be intimate. It doesn’t even have to be sex – a little late night talking to each other rather than both staring at a screen can do wonders for reconnecting. Rachel Buchanan
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Seasons can be romantic
- Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad? Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
- If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bern Williams
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Places can be romantic
- I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place. Elizabeth Berkley
- There’s a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. David Guterson
- A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance. T. Barnum
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Start a romance with God
- To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. Saint Augustine
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Thoughts on romance and marriage
- The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can’t get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance. Joan Fontaine
- Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
- Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas More
- Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
- Romances paint at full length people’s wooings, but only give a bust of marriages: but no one cares for matrimonial cooings. Lord Byron
- Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe
- Thoughts on romance and marriage
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. W. H. Auden
- Romance is a great “salt” to sprinkle on the hard work of sharing a life with another human being, but the main ingredient of a happy marriage can never be romance. Mark Gungor
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Thoughts on sex and romance
- If you don’t attach beliefs to it, sex is just like breathing or walking. It’s beauty; it’s you. But when you go into it seeking things like satisfaction, ecstasy, intimacy, connectedness, and romance, don’t count on finding them. Byron Katie
- Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. Orlando Bloom
- The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millet
- And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love. Beatrice Wood
- The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Doug Horton
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- Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. Roger Ebert
- Fifty percent of America’s population spends less than ten dollars a month on romance; you know what we call these people? Jay Leno
- French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King
- He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. Oscar Wilde
- I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes. Patton Oswalt
- I know when I’m having sex with a woman she’s thinking about love and marriage and romance and I’m thinking ‘A hundred bucks? I can’t afford this.’ Chris Case
- I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit? Jarod Kintz
- I’m a romantic. I like cold coffee and orgasms that arrive fifteen minutes after I’ve put on my clothes and paid the lady. Jarod Kintz
- Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. Cecilia Egan
- Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. Oscar Wilde
- Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays. Oscar Wilde
- My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science- fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky. Alan Moore
- Nothing is more romantic than chocolate. Ted, Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
- Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. Oscar Wilde
- Pornography impairs one’s ability to enjoy a normal emotional, romantic, and spiritual relationship with a person of the opposite sex. Dallin H. Oaks
- Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. Janet Evanovich
- Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.
- Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. Groucho Marx
- The romance is dead if he drinks champagne from your slipper and chokes on a Dr. Scholl’s foot pad. Phyllis Diller
- When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish…Do you think ‘Titanic’ would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer. Orson Scott Card
- Why send roses? Wouldn’t it be more romantic to deliver a dozen orgasms? For only $19.95, I’ll deliver them to your woman any day of the year. But be sure to book early for Valentine’s Day. Jarod Kintz
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