Romantic

Famous quotes containing the word romantic:

“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”
—Isaiah Berlin (b. 1909)

“It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.”
—Edgar Z. Friedenberg (b. 1921)