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Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.