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.''

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.

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

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.

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.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

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

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