Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
Romance
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , on Romance
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
- By Anonymous , on Romance
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
- By Oscar Wilde , on Romance
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
- By Napoleon Bonaparte , on Romance
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
- By William Wordsworth , on Romance
Romance is the poetry of literature.
- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , on Romance
He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.
- By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , on Romance
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.
- By Lord Byron , on Romance
Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages: For no one cares for matrimonial cooings. There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
- By Lord Byron , on Romance
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
- By Jane Austen , on Romance
