“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.

In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”

“WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.”

“Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food.

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

“There's a bit of a strange twist to my ending – I won't say what. I was anxious not to abandon the romance, the fairy tale, the magic in this ballet but at the same time I wanted to reach that from an everyday world, for him to create that romantic notion of an ideal woman for himself – not to go skipping through some fairy-tale woods and stumble across an enchanted swan-woman.”