Romance or romantic usually refers to Romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido.
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Famous quotes containing the word romance:
“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew olderthe natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.”
—Paul Fussell (b. 1924)
“I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys.... Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you havent got that.”
—Anthony Trollope (18151882)