Romance Language

Famous quotes containing the words romance and/or language:

    “Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her look like a public building.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “This Light inspires, and plays upon
    The nose of Saint like Bag-pipe drone,
    And speaks through hollow empty Soul,
    As through a Trunk, or whisp’ring hole,
    Such language as no mortal Ear
    But spiritual Eve-droppers can hear.”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)