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| "You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money." | George Bernard Shaw | Man And Superman |  |
| Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters | |
| "Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of The Four | |
| She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. | Henry James | Washington Square | |
| "Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance." | Oscar Wilde | A Woman of No Importance | |
| "Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement." | Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband | |
| Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. | Booth Tarkington | The Magnificent Ambersons | |
| He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,--to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire. | Elizabeth Gaskell | North and South | |
