In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
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A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple.
Romance is important, but to have a friend you can use as a mirror, who can give you an objective response, that's what's really important.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
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