Famous Quotes

"We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder."

Andre Maurois on Romantic

More quotes about Romantic

• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

• "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

  Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by Andre Maurois

• "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form."

• "Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul."

• "An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."

• "Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold."

• "Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record."