They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever
Oscar Wilde
When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined.
Harold Segall
Nothing ... nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance. For man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams. These axioms poor, deaf and blinded spendthrift! are none the less valuable for being quoted.
James Branch Cabell
We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trickthat makes us grow.
Lois McMaster Bujold
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Jane Austen
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
Goldsmith, Oliver
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!
Robert Browning
So I step out of the shower, and I look out the window, and I notice the garbage man looking right in at me. So I say, 'Did you get a good look?' and he says, 'Not completely, turn around.' Then he smiled and he was missing a tooth, and that's when the romance went right out of it.
Peri Gilpin