#roman

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#built-in #courting #emotional #food #like

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#bored #comedy #day #death #doing

Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#romance #beauty

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

#dinner #girl #i #i think #more

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#how #i #i think #know #laurels

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#began #christians #crowd #define #did

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#be nice #because #important #important thing #love

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

— Kristen Stewart

#anything #disarming #honest #i #i think