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In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. - Elizabeth Ashley 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 (signed first book "By a Lady"), Persuasion 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? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 8) Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), To Romance Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 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. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude to Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. V, l. 130) Romance is the poetry of literature. - Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. - William Wordsworth, A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags
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