383 private quotes tagged romantic

“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'” — Warren Buffett

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“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.” — Nicholas Sparks

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“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.” — James Joyce

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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.” — Mason Cooley

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“I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I love romantic poetry.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” — William Shakespeare

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“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 Moore

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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” — Charles Bukowski

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“I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.” — Ben Savage

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“I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.” — Olivia Wilde

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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” — Walter Hagen

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“Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.” — Rebecca Romijn

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“When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.” — Emma Watson

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“I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.” — Brooke Burke

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“Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.” — Patti Stanger

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“If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.” — David McCallum

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“I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.” — Melanie Fiona

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“I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.” — Orlando Bloom

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“Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.” — Chevy Chase

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“Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.” — Cyril Connolly

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“I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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