Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Any walk through a park that runs between a double line of mangy trees and passes brazenly by the ladies toilet is invariably known as ''Lover's Lane.''

To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

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.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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.

I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.