#roman

All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. ↗

— P.D. James

#romance-novels #writing #age

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#difficult #genre #hair #i #just

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#identity #lesbian #life #religion #romance

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious. ↗

— Scott Dikkers

#humor #infidelity #love #relationships #romance

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#death

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#anything #disarming #honest #i #i think

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#bit #campaign #character #did #episodes

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

#catholics #chiefly #church #consider #consisting

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#peculiarly #race #romans #told #warlike